Example sentences of "[indef pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 2 | ‘ Going by form she 'll have had someone in there with her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ To think of someone in that station of life resorting to blackmail ! ’ |
| 4 | Even if you do manage to prove that he has been harassing you , there does n't appear to be much general acceptance of the fact that intimidating someone in this way might actually constitute a serious crime . |
| 5 | Again , there was a problem of a ticket barrier , but this time someone in front of me was arguing with the inspector so I was able to pass unhindered . |
| 6 | Ring Brian again and again for the relief of talking to someone in this Lucyless silent world , engaged , engaged , engaged . |
| 7 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 8 | Some older people who live alone or who can not get out appreciate the security of knowing that they can contact someone in an emergency . |
| 9 | But if you employ someone in your house , you want them to do it your way , not theirs . ’ |
| 10 | From the hundreds of letters I have received from adult survivors the message is quite clear : they wish that someone in their childhood had stopped it . ’ |
| 11 | It costs the taxpayer £130-£165 a week to keep someone in a residential or nursing home , he says . |
| 12 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's a right madam and I 'm always afraid she might kill someone in the paddock , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Easton 's section police tour the district in their vehicles awaiting such calls , although this meander does have another purpose in that ‘ You just never know what you could come across : maybe someone in a car that might containammunition , perhaps a stolen car , or perhaps your wife in a car with a best mate ’ ( FN 7/3/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 15 | Someone in the column seemed to recognise me ; he was shouting and waving his arms . |
| 16 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 17 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 18 | To get the best help from the radio , try to find someone in it who might be sympathetic to your music . |
| 19 | My mother told me once that on November the fifth someone in the audience had thrown a firework at the screen and the people in the film jumped . |
| 20 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 21 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 22 | I had needed to break our journey north int he capital to see someone in the tourist board 's head office . |
| 23 | In the UK it is easy to form the impression that if you tried to get a closer look at something like this someone in a uniform would break both of your legs . |
| 24 | It makes me look all grown up — you know , like someone in a film or summat . |
| 25 | Mr Jackson says that maybe someone in the house can look after him . |
| 26 | The patrol commander had just finished briefing the police on the situation when one of the patrol shouted , ‘ There 's someone in the bank . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Someone in the audience has asked me to greet them the way the chimpanzees greet each other in the wild at Gombe , ’ Jane Goodall began . |
| 28 | ‘ We would expect to see him in a couple of warm-up fights , certainly someone in the top 10 , before he fights Mike Tyson again , if that is to happen , ’ said Morris . |
| 29 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 30 | In a desperate attempt at humour someone in a neighbouring bed muttered half out loud : ‘ The suspense is killing me . ’ |