Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the clients who depended on him for their pensions have had to go back to work after their life savings were wiped out . |
| 2 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 3 | He says in Mexico for instance there are communities who depend on it for their livelihood and who benefit from the sale of the wood . |
| 4 | It avoids one of the most familiar classroom situations in the primary school — the child who comes to you for a word which is already written down higher up the page . |
| 5 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 6 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 7 | My family in Nottingham entertained a friend who stayed with us for several days . |
| 8 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 9 | Milton Humason who worked with him for over 30 years called him a ‘ brilliant leader ’ and wrote , ‘ He was sure of himself — of what he wanted to do , and of how to do it . ’ |
| 10 | I have a very eccentric aunt who comes to us for Christmas , flying visits . |
| 11 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 12 | I betrayed your trust and I betray sick , helpless people who come to me for help , because I love you . ’ ‘ |
| 13 | The debt-counselling charities shoulder much of the burden ; here Citizens Advice Bureaux workers from all over Oxfordshire are themselves advised on what they should tell the desperate people who come to them for help because of spiralling debt . |
| 14 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 15 | You can work in private practice where the clients are people who come to you for help ; or you can work for central or local government , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , or a commercial or industrial organisation , where the employer is your ‘ client ’ . |
| 16 | Other times , though , if it was a student who stuck with me for a couple of years , eventually they would get interested in reading in some form . |
| 17 | It is important to begin with this sense of perspective , lest the impression be given that politics exists only for the benefit of those who practise it — a kind of hobby ( or , better still , paid profession ) for an educated élite who compete among themselves for the ‘ prize ’ of being on the winning side that forms the next government . |
| 18 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 19 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 20 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 21 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 22 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 23 | It is the fact that he has stolen hope from a number of incredibly vulnerable HIV-positive women who turned to him for help . |
| 24 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |