Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his battle dispatch , Beatty described Cornwell 's bravery and recommended him for ‘ special recognition … as an acknowledgement of the high example set by him . ’ |
| 2 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 3 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 4 | He rang her just before lunch and recommended us for their pets . |
| 5 | Mobutu resisted pressure from Western governments to enter into a power-sharing arrangement with Tshisekedi and attacked them for their " flagrant interference " ; he understood , he said , " that Western aid is mixed with all sorts of threats and blackmail " . |
| 6 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 7 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 8 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 9 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 10 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 11 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 12 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 13 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 14 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 15 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 16 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 17 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 18 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 19 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 20 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 21 | Erm he wrote to Photo Gallery and asked them for er an exhibition date and they gave him one in nineteen ninety . |
| 22 | The Goths , however , objected to this national treasure being handed over , and redeemed it for 200,000 solidi . |
| 23 | Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it . |
| 24 | Mr Reynolds said he was ‘ disturbed ’ by the content of what Sir Hugh said on Wednesday and rebuked him for ‘ going public ’ . |
| 25 | Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste . |
| 26 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 27 | He came back and hugged her for a while . |
| 28 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 29 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 30 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |