Example sentences of "[pron] [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 | That is to say , there was someone with the responsibility for each operation accountable to ‘ somebody at the top ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At least there was someone at the end of a line who knew me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On realizing that there was someone at the door , he quickened his pace , so that our view of him was a fugitive one . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | There was someone in the corridor . |
| 10 | Suddenly he became vitally aware that there was someone in the hall with him . |
| 11 | There was someone in the doorway behind the boy . |
| 12 | There was someone in the field , two of them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I assumed it was someone in the police or customs . ’ |
| 15 | He was someone from the palace compound . |
| 16 | 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 . |