Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot of ‘ Great Expectations ’ is a very concentrated one , where everything and everyone are linked in the same plot . |
| 2 | Had someone been killed by the mail train ? |
| 3 | Someone being dragged from the warm embraces of a group of young ladies . |
| 4 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 5 | As we parked the car we saw someone being carried off the path into an ambulance — the attendant was n't kidding . |
| 6 | Frozen with shock , momentarily , he recovered his scattered wits and shouted , ‘ Sam , stop ; someone 's jumped off the bridge . ’ |
| 7 | Someone 's talking to the other girls . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel like an old Marie biscuit that someone 's left under the sofa . ’ |
| 9 | They take a trip in a ‘ means of communication ’ to the limits of language at the ultra-violet end of the verbal spectrum , and Someone is fuelled by the ‘ internal combustion ’ of words ( 22/218,51/247 ) . |
| 10 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 11 | I still believe that that someone is to come by the name of David and setting up of God 's kingdom but but |
| 12 | If someone is knocking on the door demanding some rent or the mortgage they are more likely to get paid than the borough council . ’ |
| 13 | On letters written on typewriters made from old toothbrushes and elastic bands , prisoners facing death tell their correspondents of daily life in the jail , of the regulations , of the procedure before an execution is carried out , of how their cell light shudder under the strain when someone is electrocuted in the chair . |
| 14 | It is his responsibility to decide whether the glider should be manned at the nose or tail , and whether someone is needed in the cockpit . |
| 15 | If someone is sitting on the radiator it is because his trousers are wet from the rain , if someone is drifting across the classroom he is going to get some paper for written work , or if someone is leaving class he is going to empty the rubbish ‘ like he usually does ’ . |
| 16 | Tough to see the connection , unless someone was thinking of the body count in Hamlet . ’ |
| 17 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 18 | Someone was watching from the shadows of the forest . |
| 19 | As I turned away someone was shouting for the M.O . |
| 20 | Maybe someone was shouting in the courtyard . ’ |
| 21 | Someone was calling to the watchman . |
| 22 | Someone was to hold up the traffic , another to get the guards , but first someone was sent down the side lane towards St Vincent 's Hospital to alert casualty and summon help . |
| 23 | She skirted the fires , seeing no sign of movement , then realized that someone was running through the dark trees towards her . |
| 24 | Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island . |
| 25 | Someone was hammering in the cellar . |
| 26 | Someone was sitting at the stone chess table . |
| 27 | Someone was knocking at the door . |
| 28 | Unmistakably someone was coming up the stairs . |
| 29 | Someone was coming up the stairs , treading quickly and lightly . |
| 30 | Someone was standing at the door of the music-room . |