Example sentences of "who [verb] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs M no longer had the time to devote to the girl who sought schooling for herself . |
| 2 | I feel genuinely hostile to an undergraduate ( supposedly one of the best educated people in the country ) who writes asking for sponsorship for some project and who does not know how to begin or end his letter or how to spell the name of the person to whom he is appealing . |
| 3 | It may of course be a partner who is the one who needs caring for . |
| 4 | James Hadley , writing his will in 1532 , remembered the church as one of Somerset 's ‘ holy places ’ , and by the late eighteenth century it had become the frequent destination of topographical writers who came searching for the romantically sublime . |
| 5 | Callers of any sort were scarce at Four Winds , mostly people who came asking for directions or even a glass of water when the weather was hot . |
| 6 | An annual briefing on cable break procedures and other emergencies would be very valuable for everyone who flies gliders , and particularly those who stop flying for long periods over the winter months and so get badly out of practice . |
| 7 | Three caring Cleveland folk who will heading for Romania on Thursday to help suffering orphans need more clothes and food to fill their seven-ton lorry and two Post Office vans . |
| 8 | The man who actually had the lease or paid the rent anyway on this flat was a man who worked sorting for the Post Office . |
| 9 | Only child Adele wrote after reading about a local teenager who died waiting for a swap op . |
| 10 | More than 100 police earlier in the day prevented demonstrators from laying wreaths on the graves of German pilots of the Condor region who died fighting for Franco during the Spanish Civil war . |
| 11 | Killed in crossfire … the British soldier who died fighting for the Croatians . |
| 12 | ( It is also true , however , that through misinformation and misleading press reports an alarming number of people increasingly think of him as a ‘ terrorist leader ’ ) He feels pressed by the black African leaders to the North who keep calling for him , to come and see them . |
| 13 | Mr Brownrigg , who enjoys cooking for his wife Patricia and admits to being a house-husband , paid tribute to the nurses and surgeons who looked after him . |
| 14 | Is there anyone out there who enjoys going for interviews ? |
| 15 | One is for Flowers for the Altar , one for St. Anthony which is given to the poor who come looking for help at various times of the day and night , and the third is for Sending a Sick Child to Lourdes , the cost of which is approximately £350 . |
| 16 | In addition to developing his own tricks and illusions , Maskelyne was important as an impresario , booking guest performers to appear in his show , and many successful magicians began their careers at the Egyptian Hall : one who never performed there was Houdini , who wrote asking for an engagement in 1898 , before he became famous , and was refused . |
| 17 | THE NHS should charge fees for old people who need nursing for more than 13 weeks in long-stay wards , a leading consultant said today . |