Example sentences of "have [be] someone [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who the other call was to Jihan has never revealed , but it is certain that it must have been someone of the highest importance , and that her purpose was to obtain from the most authoritative source possible some outside indication of what was happening in Egypt . |
| 2 | It must have been someone from the village , Rose said : who else would be walking in the woods at that hour ? |
| 3 | Some people swore it must have been someone in the Martin family . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion . |
| 5 | When she had thrown the gravel , there had been someone in the pill-box directly ahead of her . |