Example sentences of "[verb] someone in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make people think someone in the Martin family was the informer . |
| 2 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 3 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 4 | I was a student in London but I was at home on this occasion when I met someone in the park . |
| 5 | They would prefer someone in the age range 25 — 45 . |
| 6 | They caught someone in the Bazaar just the other day . |
| 7 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You could n't possibly have realised how big a task you 'd set yourself , trying to find someone in the whole of London . ’ |
| 9 | I want someone in the square tomorrow , Alan ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I expect someone in the village will tell — ’ |
| 11 | Looking someone in the eye while saying : ‘ Please would you do this ’ extends the transaction enough for you to gauge the person 's reaction and therefore mood . |
| 12 | He is turned away from me , oblivious of my existence , addressing someone in the shadows of humour — ‘ conceal more than they reveal ’ — which perhaps sorts with the reluctance and the sigh . |
| 13 | Merton , the lightning-quick deadpan potato-head who would always claim someone in the crowd shouted ‘ porn ’ as a suggested film style and then would do 25 jokes in as many seconds which had nothing whatsoever to do with sweaty shagging . |
| 14 | You ca n't look someone in the eye and say ‘ I love you ’ . |
| 15 | I know someone in the Council who might perhaps-it is only a perhaps … |
| 16 | I know someone in the States has married an eighty year old and she was only eighteen ! |
| 17 | Until he heard someone in the wood . |
| 18 | She heard someone in the background , a voice saying that Mr Cashman was insisting on seeing him . |
| 19 | Almost the first thing she said was that a madman had escaped from Rampton and killed someone in the kitchen . |
| 20 | We came up with the idea of attaching nose rings to all our players and getting someone in the kop to give a hefty tug when necessary . |
| 21 | To possess someone in the mind is to be saved from a brutal repudiation in reality , and instead to love the ethereal , which can neither disappoint nor satisfy , but only act as a goad . |
| 22 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 23 | The wine and the excitement of having someone in the house to talk to . |
| 24 | ‘ And this is where she 's really going to feel the benefit of having someone in the family who knows about insurance . ’ |
| 25 | We still feel someone in the the local community knows something and is n't coming forward . |
| 26 | And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer . |
| 27 | Just £2 , for example can feed someone in the Sudan for a whole month . |
| 28 | What happened was this : Micky stopped getting the lines , turned round in confusion , then presumably saw someone in the wings pointing a gun at him . |
| 29 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |
| 30 | And Sarah Morgan likes the idea of Angela marrying someone in the government . ’ |