Example sentences of "[be] someone [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There always seemed to be someone else to hand over to . |
| 2 | He had no key to the house ; he had asked his mother for one , but she had said it was n't necessary — there would always be someone there to let him in . |
| 3 | She wished there were someone here to support her and her soul cried out in longing : Friend ! |
| 4 | Now when you 're often they phone up and say , There 's someone here to see you . |
| 5 | Motioning for Seb to come to her , she stood in the doorway and in a low voice , said , ‘ There 's someone downstairs to see Anna . |
| 6 | If only there was someone here to tell these brilliant things to . |
| 7 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |