Example sentences of "[indef pn] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered someone in the stylish thriller Shattered . |
| 2 | Most likely there will be someone in the close family or a reliable friend . |
| 3 | For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive . |
| 4 | ‘ Put me through to the police office , please , ’ he said to someone in the outer office . |
| 5 | There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club . |
| 6 | ‘ And someone in the Interior Ministry might blow the whistle on you ? ’ |
| 7 | Ideally someone in the ferreting party will be given the task of removing each rabbit as soon as it is caught up . |
| 8 | There was always something for someone in the criminal world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Someone in the High Police — probably Fouché himself , we know he 's obsessed with intrigue — sees it as an opportunity to introduce one of his agents into Vienna . |
| 11 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 12 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 13 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 14 | Read , by someone in the Clerical Grade ? |
| 15 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 16 | And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer . |
| 17 | Still nobody in the chemical industry put two and two together . |
| 18 | ‘ Nobody in the present cast is in the race , ’ wrote Gordon Gow , ‘ with the single exception of Walter Matthau who deadpans beautifully as the miser Vandergelder and even gets away with his preposterous volte-face in the telescoped conclusion . ’ |
| 19 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 20 | Thanks to the operation of Murphy 's Law relating to parents , they were coming downstairs hand-in-hand just as Jo 's mother walked in the door ; nobody in the whole room could have missed the flash of alarm in Lorna Lewis 's huge , upswept , blue eyes when she saw her elder daughter coming downstairs with a boy . |
| 21 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 22 | For example , if somebody in the distant kitchen drops a tray with a clatter in the middle of your speech you could say , ‘ Applause at the end please ! ’ |
| 23 | Could you write an article for somebody in the top year of your last school , about English A Level , and what they should be able to , what they should expect ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 've talked to Six , and somebody in the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | He might be less likely to dismiss Pope John Paul II as the stooge of a defunct ideology , yet there is plenty in the conservative tradition of Vatican thinking which is just as subversive of his attempt to present consumerist liberal society as ‘ final ’ . |
| 26 | Reckless confidence , for a single traitor or allied spy could have meant ruin for the whole scheme ; yet none in the Grand Army thought such a thing even a possibility . |
| 27 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 28 | There were three babies with chronic lung disease in the random group and none in the regulated group , but the total in the study is too small to say if either figure is different from the expected incidence of about 10% in this population of babies . |
| 29 | About 1300 journalists registered at this years ' show , and you have only to read the number of column entries and to hear the radio and to see the television to know that the content of this year 's Royal Show stands second to none in the technical content of agricultural exhibitions across the world . |
| 30 | Webb , who joined United for £1.5 million just over three years ago , has started only three games this season and none in the Premier League . |