How to chain Laravel 5.1 (one-to-many) Eloquent ORM relationship?

Currently i am having to manually access the relationship of each event.

see below:

    $events = Events::where('status', '!=', 'passed')->orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->take(20)->get();
    foreach ($events as $event) {
        $responses = Events::findOrFail($event->id)->responses()->where('user_id', '=', '1')->first();//TODO user_id hardcoded

        if($responses) echo "The event has a response that belongs to the user";
            else echo "The event doesnt have a response for that user";


    }

Is there a way to chain the "Events::" Eloquent ORM completley?

Let me know if you need to see the the models although it's pretty standard.

via Chebli Mohamed