Example sentences of "was [verb] for someone [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Director Ken Loach was looking for someone to play the mother in his award-winning film Kes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Johnny Boy was waiting for someone to pull into his driveway . |
| 5 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Anna was screaming for someone to stop them , while the gipsies were urging them to fight to a finish . |