Example sentences of "[indef pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As competition for places on the Kindertransporte mounted to panic proportions , the chances of success turned increasingly on knowing the right people — an official who could hurry through an application or , more critically , someone in Britain who was willing to take on the financial responsibility of acting as a guarantor . |
| 2 | It literally takes seconds for a message typed in by someone in Britain to arrive at an address in the US , or Australia , or wherever . |
| 3 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 4 | He was a young lawyer of about thirty in his first year in Parliament , who had sufficiently impressed someone in Government to have been given the job of Junior Minister at the Trade office . |
| 5 | In an interview the social worker needs to be able to start a conversation with someone in difficulty , who has a problem or need , and explore the matter in such a way that it seems the worker has the feel of the situation , and a grasp of the main facts . |
| 6 | Steve was meeting someone in Seville and I just went on my own . |
| 7 | His face had the dead whiteness of someone in shock . |
| 8 | If judgment is obtained in this country against someone in France ( or most other Community states ) , that judgment can be enforced in the country in question by virtue of the Brussels Convention ( on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments ) 1968 . |
| 9 | Re-installing for an IBM and re-booting cured the problem but perhaps someone in Schuchardt knows something about compatibility nobody else does ! |
| 10 | Barry Manilow was on that same programme and afterwards Mrs Thatcher rushed up to him , got hold of his extremely expensive collar and said , ‘ You know , this is n't very well made , the shape 's all wrong , you should go to someone in Jermyn Street , young man , they 'll sort your shirts out for you . ’ |
| 11 | In the winter that followed we all had a house together and Giorgio came to stay , and the winter after that Anna took me to Switzerland while Constanza travelled with someone in Spain . |
| 12 | If you were not to accompany us I would have to find someone in New York . |
| 13 | The current world champion is an accountant from Ipswich and the year before , Durham University maths student Robert Fulford won the title , which he wrested from someone in New Zealand . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone in bed ? ’ she asked . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , someone in bed . ’ |
| 16 | longer than someone in love . |
| 17 | Dr Daniel told The Art Newspaper that ‘ someone , either working for the family or an independent speculative dealer , has already approached the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offering the collection ’ , and that ‘ a private Spanish gallery was offered the Kramar collection from someone in Japan ’ . |
| 18 | But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner . |
| 19 | Whatever formal characteristics Lyons might attribute to English in theory , in practice it would be difficult for him to sustain the claim that ‘ it is possible to address someone or talk about someone in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude ’ . |
| 20 | The courts in the past have been very reluctant to extend the doctrine of constructive notice and knowledge to cases where monies are paid in the ordinary course of business to someone in discharge of a liability . |
| 21 | Not only is it an American plane that is responsible for the dreadful situation in which we find ourselves , but it was someone in America who was ultimately responsible . |
| 22 | Because someone in America is vegetarian . |
| 23 | Most of the exceptions to the nemo dat principle apply only if the goods are disposed of by someone in possession of them and if the buyer is lawfully in possession of the goods the seller 's lien is lost anyway ( section 43(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 24 | Someone in possession with the consent of them both can be said to be in possession ‘ with consent of the owner . ’ |
| 25 | An adult nowadays can not really say , or even someone in school , in secondary school can not say that they do not know the dangers of cigarettes . |
| 26 | Someone in London must be blocking complete access … ’ |
| 27 | If one wanted to meet someone in London who is in fact elsewhere and had to spend a morning travelling which one could pleasantly have spent in bed , then the desire to travel can be faulted . |
| 28 | I got past the consultant and sent back to my GP and she immediately said , ‘ You 've been very naughty , you 've got to have your breast removed , never mind what you found here and there , I am going to send you back to someone in London who 'll take it off ’ . |
| 29 | No , I mean , no someone in London has decided it 'll mean less paperwork so all the judg all the erm people in in er Birmingham are going down to complain . |
| 30 | If the horse had been doped , it could only mean that someone in Bill 's yard had been involved . |