Example sentences of "[indef pn] [be] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , indeed , any trace of someone being near the bell ? |
| 2 | Someone 's at the door ! |
| 3 | Someone 's at the door ! |
| 4 | I said , I 'm frightened someone 's in the 'ouse , I 'm frightened not waking everybody well , well what do you do , I says , you do n't , unless you have a go , you do n't , I mean , if I 'd turned out you know , you do n't really know . |
| 5 | How would you know whether someone 's in the house or not ? |
| 6 | You move closer , and find that someone is at the bottom of a deep pit . |
| 7 | Fido can be trained to give the alert if someone is at the door , if the telephone is ringing or a visitor is coming up the path . |
| 8 | You may want your dog to bark initially , to alert you to the fact that someone is at the door . |
| 9 | Someone is in the middle and all the other children in a circle are holding hands . |
| 10 | Instead of coding the class background of respondents as 1 , 2 or 3 to denote service , intermediate or working class , for example , the information is effectively presented as two dichotomous variables — whether someone is in the service class or not , and in the intermediate class or not . |
| 11 | Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing . |
| 12 | Someone was on the floor above them . |
| 13 | someone was on the phone . |
| 14 | Maxham was one of the chatty type , like a superior salesman , a foot through the door before you had time to register that someone was on the doorstep . |
| 15 | Jasper wondered if the man in uniform had actually seen Chris on the roof of the car , had had a phone call from Kensington High Street that someone was on the roof of a car , or if he knew nothing except what that woman was telling him . |
| 16 | Someone was in the corridor . |
| 17 | Beyond the fence , someone was in the garden , digging . |
| 18 | You think , how can somebody be on the earth , I mean |
| 19 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 20 | And I thought somebody 's at the door . |
| 21 | cos somebody 's in the lounge and you want to take , somebody comes to the kitchen you can |
| 22 | Now somebody is in the school . |
| 23 | Fortunately nobody was on the face at the time of the avalanche and all climbers and walkers in the area have been accounted for . |
| 24 | ‘ Fortunately nobody was in the toilet and there were no injuries . |
| 25 | Nobody was in the house . |
| 26 | that nobody was , nobody was in the business of not enforcing those , erm , but the only way I could erm fulfil , the obligations arising out of the treaty and abstain from measures that jeopardize the attainments of the objectives of the treaty , er was to allow the monies to be collected by er leaving you free to pursue your counterclaim , because then if you 're right , erm then you would achieve everything you are entitled to achieve , by your counterclaim , that would achieve the objectives of article eighty five , erm whereas the collection of the money would achieve the objectives of the directive |
| 27 | And , since no one has ordered a new nuclear plant since 1978 and none are in the offing , the decision is academic , say industry spokesmen . |
| 28 | see , all the white one are at the front and they 're |
| 29 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 30 | If one were in the middle of a flat plane , conveniently marked with a square grid , then the outcome would be as in Figure 4.9 ( b ) . |