Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Hungary , the process industry looked to us for safety advice and provided our first contract in Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | The widespread influence of Kerschensteiner ensured that reformers referred to him for guidance on the matter . |
| 3 | Usually they are quite capable of doing this for themselves , but if your elderly parent turns to you for advice on financial matters your main aims should be : I. To make sure that she is receiving all the State benefits and pensions to which she may be entitled . |
| 4 | But if it decides a question remitted to it for decision without committing any of these errors it is as much entitled to decide that question wrongly as it is to decide it rightly . |
| 5 | Since issue number one we 've quoted the raw results of the benchmark tests we use ( and we 've chosen them pretty carefully , I might add , and applied them to every machine submitted to us for review ) , but we 've discovered that the raw figures do n't mean a lot to a great many of you . |
| 6 | He resented the assertion of Aquitainian authority coming hard on the heels of the Grandmont meeting and when Count William turned to him for help he responded by raiding the Vexin to draw Henry back north . |
| 7 | This young man Aldhelm cries to us for justice . |
| 8 | The banks ' role in the economy is thus crucial , and this was underlined when Chancellor Kohl turned to them for help in rebuilding East Germany . |
| 9 | The business community rallied to him for fear that Duke 's election would scare off tourism and outside investors . |
| 10 | Those which her husband offered to her for signature she signed without question ; those offered by others she would ask for the document to be explained . |
| 11 | Although I was still young , important people came to me for advice . |
| 12 | Right , so I mean obviously if there 's anything that comes up as you go along I 've got ta be able to you know you and I , I 'll just chat it through , but when it comes to things like er me talk to you , sales talk to you for instance about a comparative question , you would n't know what I was talking about would you ? |
| 13 | One can imagine how ordinary people coming to her for help would have gone away cheered and instructed by this sane visionary . |
| 14 | So it was natural for Sarah to turn to her for help in her troubles — and last year 's annual royal holiday pilgrimage to Balmoral seemed the perfect opportunity . |
| 15 | A man came to us for food recently , but he also needed spiritual counselling . |
| 16 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 17 | But he knew that the other Beastline creatures looked to him for guidance , and he had accepted the leadership they imposed on him , for he knew that there must always be those who govern and those who serve . |
| 18 | Pupils look to them for advice , encouragement and support . |
| 19 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 20 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 21 | I think , I 'd like to just take up the point about secrecy because I am involved in talking to couples where the , there is a basic problem of male infertility where th the husband of the couple , or the partner of the couple is unable to father a child because he 's not producing any sperm , or not producing enough sperm and that couple come to us for help and advice |
| 22 | When a patient comes to me for regression , I do in fact record the session on cassette , giving the tape to the patient at the end of the consultation . |
| 23 | Of course , some of the organs come to us for analysis . " |
| 24 | If this means paying more than 10% on the holiday price , you will be entitled to cancel your holiday with a full refund of all money paid except for the premium paid to us for holiday insurance and amendment charges . |
| 25 | If this means paying more than £10 on the holiday price , you will be entitled to cancel your holiday with a full refund of all money paid except for any premium paid to us for holiday insurance and amendment charges . |