Example sentences of "[conj] someone [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or someone before that ? |
| 2 | But say it 's your mother , or your probation officer or someone like that , it 's all right . |
| 3 | What about James or someone like that ? |
| 4 | Er well I mean I want to find from A T S or someone like that how much their cars would cost |
| 5 | ‘ There 's something or someone in that damn barn . |
| 6 | A dedicated cook with a demanding job outside the home will probably need their kitchen to be that much more functional than someone with more leisure to shop — at least in the sense of providing good storage and extra quick cooking facilities , such as microwave oven and a freezer . |
| 7 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 8 | Soon after , she said wistfully : ‘ I am just very , very sad that someone with such ability is not able to serve his country in the way he can do best . ’ |
| 9 | How curious that someone with such a short , neatly waved cap of brown hair should be talking to someone with such a fuzz of ginger hair — and talking so seriously , with no sense of disparity ! |
| 10 | I did think that someone outside that house was using assassins , professional killers , but that would be too dangerous . |
| 11 | Surely , however , there are lines to be drawn , and it is not only remarkable , but worrying , to find that someone in such a responsible position can argue that the tobacco industry provides a neutral form of sponsorship . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 13 | Is there a deeper fear that someone from this little part of the world could become another champion of champions like those who went before ? |
| 14 | And even if someone from another age is standing on this spot , a ghostly paintbrush in her hand , her eyes would n't see what I see . |
| 15 | Folks do chat and someone like this will inevitably go round telling everyone you were rude to them ! |
| 16 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |
| 17 | When someone like that from your past looms in front of you there is a kind of shock . |