Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is the fact that he has stolen hope from a number of incredibly vulnerable HIV-positive women who turned to him for help . |