Example sentences of "and [vb past] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt like the boy 's father ; he loved and cared for Grégoire as if he were his son . |
| 2 | He told them how morally indefensible was the policy of apartheid , and asked for prayer for Africa . |
| 3 | The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US . |
| 4 | Some time after this Mrs Meehan wrote to me that her husband was innocent , and asked for assistance in having his case reviewed . |
| 5 | He picked up the phone again and asked for Agnes at the Mount Row number . |
| 6 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 7 | But without doubt the most contentious defector to reach the West was Anatoli Golitsin , who arrived at the office of the CIA 's station chief in Helsinki in Finland in December 1911 and asked for asylum for himself , his wife and daughter . |
| 8 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 9 | As Gerry and his fellow villagers talked of the better days to come , a carload of American tourists pulled up in the street beside him and asked for directions to ‘ Dannygal ’ . |
| 10 | The RAC removed 89 parts from the stack and asked for replacements from the spares stock . |
| 11 | I see from my files that Simon Murison-Bowie sent you two copies of the Agreement for this tape which required signing on behalf of the University of Toronto and return to us , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements in his letter of 19 February . |
| 12 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 13 | It was Don who made the effort ; he bought the local paper and looked at ads for houses ; he phoned estate agents and asked for lists of properties . |
| 14 | Culture supernatants , cleared of cell debris by centrifugation at 5000RPM for 15min , were added in triplicate to coated wells and incubated for 2hrs at RT . |
| 15 | They were composed in the years of the Exclusion crisis , during which Locke 's patron , Shaftesbury , and others , sought to exclude James , then Duke of York , from the succession to the throne , and argued for government by consent and for the right to religious dissent . |
| 16 | While the government broadly supported the United Statesled coalition and the use of force to reverse the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , the opposition Labour Party was questioned US intentions in the area and argued for pressure to be exerted on Iraq through an intensification of economic sanctions . |
| 17 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 18 | She drew deep breaths and fought for control over her trembling limbs . |
| 19 | Instinct attached my hands to the reins as she accelerated and headed for home with me in tow . |
| 20 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 21 | Expectation was boiling when we all climbed into Reg 's minibus and headed for Chamden on that balmy September Saturday . |
| 22 | Neil did not hear this broadcast however , and headed for Malta with his followers , seeing a Ju88 and several other types of aircraft in the distance as they went . |
| 23 | More than 50 children rooted for rocks and ferreted for fossils on Saturday . |
| 24 | Then he dropped to roof-top height and fled for home through the deepening dusk . |
| 25 | Goods are traded and swopped for items in demand or for services . |
| 26 | He was shot in the thigh while trying to avoid arrest at the Danish frontier in May 1945 , and tried for treason in London in September . |
| 27 | A new Gang of Four ( or five or six ) headed by Li Peng would be arrested and tried for crimes against the people . |
| 28 | Outside the old Stasi headquarters in the Lichtenberg district of East Berlin demonstrators stormed and ransacked the building and were only persuaded to stop after Modrow and New Forum round table delegates broke off their meeting and appealed for calm at the scene itself . |
| 29 | In July 1947 he returned illegally and appealed for help to the RCM , whose representative advised him to give himself up . |
| 30 | On the first day of a two-day visit to the United Kingdom , de Klerk saw the UK Prime Minster , John Major , on April 22 and appealed for help in winning investment . |