Example sentences of "for someone [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There may conceivably be cases where it is all right for someone willingly to allow themselves to be treated as a means . |
| 2 | Organization can help to overcome the isolation , the loneliness , all too often felt by the would-be innovatory teacher , the need for someone else to talk things over with , plan with , compare notes with . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure , but I just thought , I 'm just paying for someone else to go on that holiday . |
| 4 | Preferably you can arrange for someone else to do these jobs for you . |
| 5 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 6 | Well , I reckon so , so I I 've arranged for someone else to do it now . |
| 7 | One of the biggest problems in desktop publishing is that to archive a finished newsletter or whatever takes up an entire floppy disk for one issue — and it 's even worse if you want to squirt the thing down the wire for someone else to print out . |
| 8 | He ran the trolley down to the corridor 's end and left it there for someone else to pick up and use , and then he doubled back and started to walk the distance to the locker room . |
| 9 | Elizabeth waited for a moment as though for someone else to open the door and then rose and went to do so herself . |
| 10 | It 's always easier for someone else to see where you 've missed the point . |
| 11 | If something needed doing Eva Burrows did n't look around for someone else to see to it . |
| 12 | Subba Row , also the chairman of Surrey and a former England and Northamptonshire batsman , will remain a powerful voice but clearly wishes for someone else to take the responsibility for the hazards to come . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps the time has come for someone else to take on the burden . |
| 14 | I have some wonderful memories which I will always cherish but it is time for someone else to take over . |
| 15 | I used an inadequate metaphor of ‘ face ’ and ‘ mask ’ , suggesting that performing is more akin to creating a mask for someone else to look at . |
| 16 | Of course , keeping a pet , any pet , means that you can not go on holiday without making arrangements for someone else to look after it . |
| 17 | If you plan to go abroad , then clearly you will need to make arrangements for someone else to look after your dog while you are away from home . |
| 18 | Certainly the worst way to come to terms happily with being alone is to struggle constantly against it , always waiting for someone else to come along and take away our loneliness . |
| 19 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 20 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 21 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |
| 22 | I was about to take off my load and leave the heap of pine-needles for someone else to find in the morning when I saw a figure approaching in the distance . |
| 23 | Batty 's other great strength is controling the ball , no matter how fast or high it is he brings it down with his chest or foot so he can lay it off for someone else to make a defence splitting pass . |
| 24 | A weapon for someone else to fire ? ’ |
| 25 | But to have him sitting beside him , looking his followers over in silence and courteously waiting for someone else to speak first — this was a situation beyond Hazel 's experience . |
| 26 | We 're all waiting for someone else to speak . |
| 27 | 5 If you leave a message for someone else to phone the journalist back , check to see that they have not missed the message or forgotten to fulfil it . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ If a player flicks up the ball and tries to head it to his goalkeeper , or flicks it up for someone else to knock back , he 'll be booked for ungentlemanly conduct . ’ |