Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 2 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 3 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 4 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 5 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 6 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 7 | Here she would receive such visitors as happened to be staying in the house , and subsequently reverential visitors , who appealed to her for aid or sympathy . |
| 8 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 9 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 12 | Although the petitioners realised that it was government policies which were responsible for the impoverishment of the masses , the movement did not oppose government , it appealed to it for improvements . |
| 13 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 14 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 15 | Like many athletes Linford often came to him for advice . |
| 16 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 17 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 18 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
| 19 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 20 | Although I was still young , important people came to me for advice . |
| 21 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 22 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 23 | Several older women , desperate about this situation came to me for contraceptives ( which I did n't have ) . |
| 24 | Let's just tell you what you look like , you came to me for a job you would n't get it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 27 | The family wanted to dispute the will , and that 's when Angela — Miss Morgan — came to us for advice . |
| 28 | ‘ People originally came to us for help with choosing wallpapers , paints , fabrics and curtains , but we realised we could give them a much broader service , ’ explains Jon . |
| 29 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 30 | A man came to us for food recently , but he also needed spiritual counselling . |