Example sentences of "that someone was " in BNC.
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| 31 | We understood his need to feel that he was special , that someone was looking after him , and wished he could draw strength from us , rather than locking himself in his fantasies . |
| 32 | The young woman shook her head and steeped the cloth on Sycorax 's brow again , and bent closer , keeping her mind focused on her song , for she knew that someone was at her back , at the opening of her cabin , beyond the screen of rushes that stood there , and he was waiting for her . |
| 33 | Helen explained that someone was converting the disused Baptist chapel into a house . |
| 34 | She said only that someone was coming to see her . |
| 35 | Apparently , on one occasion , as he stormed past Uncle and Sam Fawcett , Uncle told Sam that someone was sure to cop it before the day was out . |
| 36 | I was talking to friends when I realized that someone was watching me . |
| 37 | Maxham was one of the chatty type , like a superior salesman , a foot through the door before you had time to register that someone was on the doorstep . |
| 38 | When the light went out , Rain had the suspicion they were not alone on the stairs , that someone was watching them , perhaps they actually passed close to a figure pressed into the shadows . |
| 39 | There was no sound , but the fear along her spine insisted that someone was there . |
| 40 | He knew that someone was using voodoo against him . |
| 41 | Strongly suspecting that someone was hiding . |
| 42 | One evening , however , as the never-failing north wind freshened , rustling the tops of the dom palms as he walked back to the harbour quarter , he had the impression that someone was dogging his steps . |
| 43 | If , on the other hand , he felt that someone was a really harmful influence , he did not hesitate to say so . |
| 44 | ‘ Around It ’ , observes Williams , ‘ some people thought that someone was profiteering . |
| 45 | The back of the canvas chair had been turned towards the town , and in the gloom it was not immediately apparent that someone was sitting in it . |
| 46 | It would be nice to think that someone was . |
| 47 | She skirted the fires , seeing no sign of movement , then realized that someone was running through the dark trees towards her . |
| 48 | ‘ Ubaldo told me that someone was going behind his back , ’ she repeated . |
| 49 | A declaration that someone was acting as a " quasi-arbitrator " would be likely itself to be the subject of a future application to the court as to what the declaration meant … |
| 50 | Though the landing was empty and there was n't a sound all around , she had the strangest sensation that someone was there . |
| 51 | ‘ Jumped to the rather melodramatic conclusion that someone was following you ? ’ |
| 52 | With Pluto in Scorpio you have had an uneasy feeling that someone was plotting against you . |
| 53 | Fabia counteracted any feeling of wretchedness at that last guilty thought by deciding that it really was n't good enough that Vendelin Gajdusek had gone away when he knew full well that someone was travelling especially from England to see him . |
| 54 | ‘ We think Brian might have seen something or found something out that someone was afraid he would come home and tell us , ’ said Mr McDermott . |