Example sentences of "[was/were] someone [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 2 | ‘ There was someone outside the kitchen window when I arrived , ’ said Finn placidly , apparently pleased to be able to contribute something to this limited discussion . |
| 3 | The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment . |
| 4 | At least there was someone at the end of a line who knew me . |
| 5 | The responsibility for bearing human beings was too great for a human being to bear : to bring a child into the world was a terrible thing to do unless you could be sure that there was someone at the end to take it out with at least as much love and care as you had brought it in with . |
| 6 | On realizing that there was someone at the door , he quickened his pace , so that our view of him was a fugitive one . |
| 7 | And now here was someone on the phone saying , Is Boy there ? |
| 8 | The operator , surly in her attitude , did n't inform Duncan that they had answered , and it was a moment before he realized that there was someone on the line . |
| 9 | That is to say , there was someone with the responsibility for each operation accountable to ‘ somebody at the top ’ . |
| 10 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
| 11 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 12 | He was someone from the palace compound . |
| 13 | There was someone in the corridor . |
| 14 | In this connection it is significant that the main 1979 survey showed that , if people themselves have not decided to start with which type of credit arrangement they were going to use ( in their most recent major credit transaction ) the most common source of suggestion for them was someone in the shop . |
| 15 | Suddenly he became vitally aware that there was someone in the hall with him . |
| 16 | There was someone in the doorway behind the boy . |
| 17 | I assumed it was someone in the police or customs . ’ |
| 18 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 19 | There was someone in the field , two of them . |
| 20 | Mr Templeton said that minutes later he had spoken to a policeman who contradicted that information and said he had been told that there was someone in the building . |