Example sentences of "[noun] and someone [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been in touch with the museum and someone is coming over next week and in the meantime they said do n't touch anything . ’ |
| 2 | It felt as if it had been split in two by a cold chisel and someone was grinding the two halves together . |
| 3 | They 're due to go to press this evening and someone 's –ailed to meet the deadline . |
| 4 | They pushed through the padded door , back towards the dining room , and Miranda confided , ‘ When I 'm really on the breadline and someone 's taking me out , I sometimes tell them I have n't any change for Madame Pipi — they give me something . |
| 5 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
| 6 | Somewhere , far away , there seemed to be a rapping at the door and someone was calling his name , over and over , louder and louder … |
| 7 | Fill the world with nothing but good clean pure air and someone 's going to get up into it and fall out of it . |
| 8 | Too often , it was remembered only when some chore required to be done as on the night when William Black arrested the men on the covert operation and someone was wanted to allay with a concocted story any suspicions which might be forming in the mind of Seán McNamee . |
| 9 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 10 | For example , if you 're an ardent feminist and someone is telling sexist jokes , you wo n't find them funny . |