Example sentences of "be [verb] for someone [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith said : ‘ I 've been looking for someone to play wide on the right . |
| 2 | Opportunity has now been presented for someone to take a sober look at her writings which have been collected into one volume recently by Liz Johnson and Cecily O'Neill ( 1983 ) . |
| 3 | With Christmas approaching , the managers of a shopping arcade are searching for someone to play the part of Santa Claus in their grotto . |
| 4 | We are looking for someone to join an international team working on the identification and cloning of antifungal proteins from plants . |
| 5 | ‘ The Salvation Army are looking for someone to put in a training house they 've got there and — ’ |
| 6 | They are looking for someone to give them a helping hand . ’ |
| 7 | We can observe many examples in non-linguistic behaviour of the use of signals to regulate turn-taking : in many sports , for example , it is necessary to do this — footballers can indicate that they are looking for someone to pass the ball to , or that they are ready to receive the ball , and doubles partners in tennis can indicate to each other who is to play a shot . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ said the agent , ‘ they 're looking for someone to play Long John Silver in a new production of Treasure Island . ’ |
| 9 | They 're looking for someone to play this sort of deformed hunchback , part werewolf , part vampire . |
| 10 | That is why , say many Beijingers , ‘ we are waiting for someone to die ’ . |
| 11 | The General Household Survey 's special analysis of carers in 1985 ( Green , 1988 ) suggested that : 1.7 million adults are caring for someone living with them ; 1.4 million are spending at least twenty hours per week doing so ; and 3.4 million are bearing the main responsibility for the care of someone . |
| 12 | When you are on evening duty , get to know individual bedtimes ( though be prepared for someone to change their mind ) and check what kind of help they would like from you . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone named Shirley who was a care assistant at Chestnut House twenty years ago , ’ she explained . |
| 14 | I 'm looking for someone to look after nine month old for about two/three days per week . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone called Svend . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm waiting for someone to use a tankful of petrol so I can go and have a look . |
| 17 | My uncle is looking for someone to replace a partner who 's retiring . ’ |
| 18 | The current NCT representative on the ( wait for it ) West Midlands Regional Health Authority 's Health Promotion Group 's Ante-Natal Care Action Group ( what a mouthful ) is about to retire and is looking for someone to take over . |
| 19 | First , as we wish to encourage carers and strengthen families — even the extended family — if a person who is caring for someone loses them to a home , the person 's home should not have to go on the market to meet the cost of fees . |
| 20 | It is reassuring for someone to know that if they jump at shadows or can not sleep after an accident or a crime , it is part of a natural process and that they will get over it . |
| 21 | Yet the army too is waiting for someone to die , and the different factions of the party leadership are replicated in its high command . |
| 22 | ‘ So , I started looking around for another job and heard that Mike Martinez , the agent , was looking for someone to do some secretarial work and some negotiating , and that he preferred English girls for such work . |
| 23 | Director Ken Loach was looking for someone to play the mother in his award-winning film Kes . |
| 24 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 25 | Johnny Boy was waiting for someone to pull into his driveway . |
| 26 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Anna was screaming for someone to stop them , while the gipsies were urging them to fight to a finish . |