Example sentences of "[verb] that there was someone " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operator , surly in her attitude , did n't inform Duncan that they had answered , and it was a moment before he realized that there was someone on the line . |
| 2 | ‘ He admitted that there was someone else , but he would n't give me any details . |
| 3 | Well , it now seemed that there was someone he wanted to see in Glasgow , so he was taking this chance to fit that in . |
| 4 | Had it I seen that there was someone sleeping in the bed my course of action would have been otherwise . |
| 5 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 6 | Mr Templeton said that minutes later he had spoken to a policeman who contradicted that information and said he had been told that there was someone in the building . |
| 7 | I had to erm until the whole of the h the premises had been searched and secured then I had to assume that there was someone in that room until the contrary was shown . |
| 8 | On realizing that there was someone at the door , he quickened his pace , so that our view of him was a fugitive one . |