Example sentences of "[conj] there [was/were] someone [prep] the " 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 | The responsibility for bearing human beings was too great for a human being to bear : to bring a child into the world was a terrible thing to do unless you could be sure that there was someone at the end to take it out with at least as much love and care as you had brought it in with . |
| 3 | On realizing that there was someone at the door , he quickened his pace , so that our view of him was a fugitive one . |
| 4 | Suddenly he became vitally aware that there was someone in the hall with him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 7 | The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment . |