Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , although it 's impractical for people to call Ampeg , I have a box number for anyone who might want to write to me for advice . |
| 2 | If there is anyone in your parish whom you think might be interested and suitable , perhaps you would draw their attention to these posts and encourage them to write to me for application forms and job description . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 4 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 5 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 6 | Said John , well , we 've got other ideas we 'd like you to come to us for Christmas , so I thought , as I said to Brenda , you do n't turn down an invitation from your own children |
| 7 | I said to Cheryl please do n't go and invite to come to yours for dinner now and because insult us cos we 're not without him cos I 'm prepared to go I look forward to that . |
| 8 | Lord , you are the source of peace ; we cry to You for peace in our world ; daily we see and hear of strife within nations , of tensions between states , of violence being done by men against men ; we are sad Lord , and know that You are sad too . |
| 9 | We know that you are sad to see so many disputes between different parts of your family and we cry to you for unity and harmony between brothers and sisters . |
| 10 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 11 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |
| 12 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 13 | Other well known names who have come to us for instruction are British Telecom , Hewlett Packard , Lucas Aerospace and John Lewis at Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction clause was not binding on B. The way the documents were presented to him for signature was misleading : B was entitled to assume that the two copies of the terms were identical . |
| 15 | On coming upstairs , he had turned to her for comfort , desperate to make love , needing to feel the growing swell of her body that was his own flesh and blood and , as always , he was moved to tears by it . |
| 16 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 17 | We have applied to them for bonding and may choose to move down that route instead . |
| 18 | But you wo n't be able to make any decision while you cling to him for fear of other men . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 23 | Like many athletes Linford often came to him for advice . |
| 24 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 25 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
| 26 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 27 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 28 | Although I was still young , important people came to me for advice . |
| 29 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 30 | 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 . |