Example sentences of "who [verb] to [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If we are to continue to meet the rapidly growing needs of those who look to us for care and prevention , we urgently need you to share the challenge with us . |
| 5 | It is the fact that he has stolen hope from a number of incredibly vulnerable HIV-positive women who turned to him for help . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The debt-counselling charities shoulder much of the burden ; here Citizens Advice Bureaux workers from all over Oxfordshire are themselves advised on what they should tell the desperate people who come to them for help because of spiralling debt . |
| 13 | I betrayed your trust and I betray sick , helpless people who come to me for help , because I love you . ’ ‘ |
| 14 | And that is happening currently with people in schools in Oxford , who come to me for Business Studies , for just about one or two weeks tuition , they then go and pass . |
| 15 | You can work in private practice where the clients are people who come to you for help ; or you can work for central or local government , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , or a commercial or industrial organisation , where the employer is your ‘ client ’ . |
| 16 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I have a very eccentric aunt who comes to us for Christmas , flying visits . |