Example sentences of "it [was/were] someone " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She heard herself say , as if it were someone else : ‘ What is it you want from life , Christopher ? |
| 2 | Then she thought , hard and suddenly as if it were someone else 's thought , I 'm in love with someone who 's not Anne . |
| 3 | I could write as if it was someone else … ’ |
| 4 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe it was someone else in the car . ’ |
| 6 | It 's like it was someone else . |
| 7 | Or suppose it was someone mean , or even cruel , and brutal ? |
| 8 | ft was strange then , all these things were happening , and the thing was , sometimes you did n't hear about them until much later , even if it was someone you were used to seeing all the time . |
| 9 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 10 | The words sounded fine but it was someone else 's story . |
| 11 | He moved him a little and saw from his face that it was someone else . |
| 12 | ‘ I was afraid it was someone else . ’ |
| 13 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 14 | When I was a kid ( Moran was born in 1965 ) I knew the name , I knew it was someone scary , but I did n't really know anything about the story or how exactly wild things really were . ’ |
| 15 | Not only is it an American plane that is responsible for the dreadful situation in which we find ourselves , but it was someone in America who was ultimately responsible . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's escaped from prison , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ but he had n't done anything , it was someone else who cheated and lied and Craig was the one to take the blame . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 18 | Maybe it was someone who had no personality ? |
| 19 | It was someone she had been to bed with . |
| 20 | ‘ The blow fell with the merciless swiftness of all misfortune ’ it was someone else 's line , a client 's presumably . |
| 21 | I was walking in the fields , I do n't know who I was with , but it was someone I liked very much , a man . |
| 22 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 23 | ‘ He said it was someone out of his past . |
| 24 | At one time I thought Tatyana may have done it , but now I have evidence it was someone else . ’ |
| 25 | I assumed it was someone in the police or customs . ’ |
| 26 | I certainly would n't do a portrait unless it was someone I 'd really like to do . |
| 27 | ‘ Only if , ’ said Connon slowly , ‘ only if it was someone she knew well . ’ |
| 28 | It was someone else speaking , not her own voice , surely … ? |
| 29 | Twice , with a thump , she spotted him , in the set of a man 's shoulders , the tilt of a head , a patch of uniform , then found it was someone else . |
| 30 | ‘ You think it was someone on Charlie 's client list ? ’ |