Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 2 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 3 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 4 | This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career . |
| 5 | Let's just tell you what you look like , you came to me for a job you would n't get it . |
| 6 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 7 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 8 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 9 | In the same way , therefore , as they had turned to primitives for finding the opposite of capitalist relations of production , they turned to them for a form of family which was the opposite of the capitalist family . |
| 10 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 11 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 12 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 13 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 14 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |