Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My family in Nottingham entertained a friend who stayed with us for several days . |
| 5 | I have a very eccentric aunt who comes to us for Christmas , flying visits . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |