Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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1 | Director Ken Loach was looking for someone to play the mother in his award-winning film Kes . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Like Paris himself , Ryder was deciding to whom to give the apple . |
4 | I was waiting for somebody to pass the creme caramel out of the fridge . |
5 | When they returned , they discovered that the main body of men had already flown out and that a party of drivers under Scratchley was waiting for them to join the vehicle convoy south through the Great Sand Sea . |
6 | He was waiting for her to open the conversation , but his manner was so cold and distant that she found it difficult to begin . |
7 | He bent briefly to brush her lips , then he was reaching behind her to turn the handle of her bedroom door . |
8 | Yes er but I do n't think he knew what I did , I think he thought I used to take the boiling water upstairs you see int he bedroom and er I think he just thought I was sitting on it to open the womb . |
9 | ‘ As you can see , I 've just come out of the bath , ’ Shae said , striving to remain polite , when every instinct in her soul was screaming at her to send the actress running with her tail between her legs . |