Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] for someone [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Boy was waiting for someone to pull into his driveway . |
| 2 | With Christmas approaching , the managers of a shopping arcade are searching for someone to play the part of Santa Claus in their grotto . |
| 3 | ‘ The Salvation Army are looking for someone to put in a training house they 've got there and — ’ |
| 4 | My uncle is looking for someone to replace a partner who 's retiring . ’ |
| 5 | While in ( 16b ) the speaker is not represented as having any kind of expectations at all , in ( 16a ) he is : the sentence with the infinitive means that the speaker was hoping for someone to come to his assistance even before this happened . |