adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a door leads somewhere (= used to say what place is on the other side of a door )
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This door leads into the garden.
a mist hangs/lies somewhere (= stays in a place )
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A thick mist lay on the hills.
a path leads somewhere
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There are many paths leading to the top of the mountain.
a picture hangs somewhere
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Three pictures hung on the wall over his bed.
a queue stretches somewhere
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The queue stretched the full length of the building.
a river rises somewhere formal (= it starts there )
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The River Euphrates rises in Turkey and flows through Syria.
a road leads/goes/runs somewhere
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We turned into the road leading to the village.
a scar runs somewhere
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A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone.
a shadow falls somewhere (= appears on something )
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The footsteps came closer, and a shadow fell across the table.
a smell comes from somewhere ( also a smell emanates from somewhere formal )
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A delicious smell of baking came from the kitchen.
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He was getting complaints about the smell emanating from his shop.
a smell wafts somewhere (= moves there through the air )
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The smells wafting up the stairs from the kitchen were making her feel hungry.
a snake slithers somewhere (= moves there )
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Just feet from me, a green snake slithered silently across the path.
a sound comes from somewhere
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The sounds seemed to be coming from the study below.
a species grows somewhere (= used about plants )
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The species grows wild in Europe.
a species is found somewhere
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This species is found only in the Southern Hemisphere.
a species lives somewhere (= used about animals )
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Many rainforest species cannot live anywhere else.
a spider climbs somewhere
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There's a spider climbing up your leg.
a spider crawls somewhere
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A huge spider just crawled under that chair.
a spider scuttles somewhere (= runs quickly )
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The spider was scuttling towards the door.
a statue stands somewhere
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His statue now stands in the courtyard.
a tunnel leads somewhere
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The Greenwich Foot Tunnel leads under the RiverThames.
go somewhere by bike
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I usually go to work by bike.
light comes from somewhere
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The only light came from the fire.
passengers travel somewhere
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More than 7.6m rail passengers travelled on the Eurostar rail service last year.
somewhere around
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The list is somewhere around .
somewhere near here
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I’m sure they live somewhere near here .
somewhere to live
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We’re still looking for somewhere to live .
spend a night somewhere (= sleep somewhere )
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We spent two nights at the Grand Hotel.
spend the afternoon somewhere/doing sth
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We decided to spend the afternoon in town.
stand (somewhere) doing sth
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They just stood there laughing.
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We stood watching the rain fall.
sunlight filters somewhere (= a little comes in )
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The canopy of leaves allows some sunlight to filter through.
sunlight streams/pours somewhere (= a lot comes in )
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Mabel pulled back the curtains, and sunlight streamed in.
sweat runs/pours somewhere
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My hand was shaking and sweat was pouring off my forehead.
sweat trickles somewhere (= flows slowly )
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I could feel the sweat trickling down my back.
the moon hangs somewhere literary (= stays there for a long time )
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The moon hung over the quiet sea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Negociants Here's somewhere different to eat.
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Steve Reid and I had a couple of free days and were eager to climb somewhere different .
safe
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I have told you, Rain, I was trying to put her somewhere safe and secret for her own safety.
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Sometimes, it's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working.
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He's returning to somewhere safe when he does that, she thought.
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She's got that way of... putting part of herself somewhere safe .
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Already he will have been smuggled out of Dublin, to somewhere safe , somewhere beyond us.
■ VERB
fall
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Water fell somewhere , echoing, and the swimming light rippled, reflecting it.
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The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.
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Temperature requirements are not too critical either, so long as they fall somewhere in the range of 20-28°C.
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Your tone generally falls somewhere in this range: Pompous: Overly formal, often contains passivity and jargon.
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By dimensions and purpose, the 1997 Ford Expedition falls somewhere between affordable housing and the next Trailways bus to Yuma.
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As one who loves the theatre and reviews on a regular basis, I fall somewhere between auntie and Agate.
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Other beans and grains fall somewhere in between.
find
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She would have to walk back in the afternoon sunshine, or find somewhere to rest.
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Whatever factors are suggested as to why people have bigger or smaller families, counterexamples can be found somewhere in the world.
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Some time that morning they would have to find somewhere to stay, but at the moment it seemed irrelevant.
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She wanted to go back, or to find somewhere that was cool and full of shade.
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They found somewhere to sit and watch what was going on, and stayed there.
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Because of Jo's curfew their first priority at every party was to find somewhere quiet and get the screwing accomplished in comfort.
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Instinct told her to find somewhere to lie up, so she turned unsteadily into the shelter of the trees.
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At the time I had to find somewhere quickly and Edouard agreed to it.
get
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After four awful years, I finally felt I was getting somewhere .
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He could therefore be patient, for he was getting somewhere when he did not seem to be moving forward.
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That's because I needed to get somewhere .
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I just have to get somewhere soon to sleep.
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But he must be got somewhere .
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I think he thought he was going to get somewhere with Ralph.
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I want to get somewhere , I don't want to be a crook or thief all my life.
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The Second Son shouted to him to pray instead of cursing and we might get somewhere .
go
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Yet the regulators have given it a dispensation: the rubbish has to go somewhere .
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If you saw the line of tracers from the side, then they were going somewhere else.
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Even the tide goes somewhere in the end.
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Sometimes it can be a weekly ritual of going somewhere together.
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If you are going somewhere then you have to know where you are going in order to point in the right direction.
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Information about motion goes somewhere else.
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Lisbon was a city in transit - everyone was waiting to go somewhere else.
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By dispensing with the inconvenience of actually having to go somewhere to vote, they induce more voters to participate in elections.
lie
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The truth probably lies somewhere between the two.
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The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between.
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For example, hope lies somewhere between blind trust and suspicion, but so does its opposite, despair.
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Of course, the truth lies somewhere in between.
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The truth, however, is likely to lie somewhere in between.
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The truth, as might be guessed, probably lies somewhere in between.
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The answer lies somewhere between these two extremes.
live
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It is much more difficult to get at property profits than at share profits - everyone has to live somewhere .
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He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac.
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She had often threatened to take her money and go and live somewhere else.
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It was vital to me that I know women somewhere lived differently, freely.
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And if you don't like it, you can live somewhere else.
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He wanted to live somewhere , period.
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Typically they are husbands or wives walking out to live somewhere else, or teenagers leaving home.
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People normally commute for one of two reasons: to live somewhere beautiful, or work somewhere glamorous.
read
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He had read somewhere that Sotheby's was in Bond Street, although he couldn't remember having ever seen it.
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I had read somewhere that all the greatest discoveries had been made in the blink of an eye.
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I read somewhere that bank capital ratios should be raised.
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I read somewhere that Charlton chased him round the goal for this, is that true??
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I read somewhere that, in dreams, we all have the experience of being psychotic or demented or delusional.
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I read somewhere that Harry Enfield doesn't believe that actors are brave.
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He remembered having read somewhere that the eyes were the one feature of the face that never changed.
start
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You have to start somewhere - but where?
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But you have to start somewhere , and, as far as the 49ers were concerned, this was progress.
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It is easy to forget that it had to start somewhere .
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That his life on earth had stopped and then started somewhere else-here, now.
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Everyone has got to start somewhere .
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Nevertheless it is necessary to start somewhere and it might be useful to take off from those analyses.
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One had to start somewhere and work quickly to meet the growing social need.
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But you have to start somewhere .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(somewhere) in the region of sth
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The cost of the plan would be in the region of $40 to $60 billion.
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An average-sized locust swarm devours in the region of 20,000 tons of vegetation every day.
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As Table 6.1 shows, the national press kept a remarkably steady share, in the region of 16 - 19 percent.
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Costings at November 1991 prices suggest that the scheme will cost in the region of £1.3 million.
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For operations in the region of space from Earth out to the asteroid belt, we need only extract water.
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Something in the region of ninety, or a hundred plus.
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Something in the region of two footballs, apparently.
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The dollar-weighted index is comprised of the stocks of 21 companies with operations in the region of Moline, Illinois.
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The equity in 100, Gurney Road is valued in the region of £50,000.
be found somewhere
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Whatever factors are suggested as to why people have bigger or smaller families, counterexamples can be found somewhere in the world.
find its way somewhere
find your way (somewhere)
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Alternatively dirt and silt could find their way back into the pond.
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As the sulphur finds its way into his lungs, he will become dizzy and nauseated.
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Corporate sponsorship ensures that far more money finds its way into sport than would otherwise be the case.
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I go back, and this time I find my way into nondescript offices below ground where priests are transcribing notes.
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In due course, these accounts found their way into print.
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The ball should have been cleared long before it found its way on to Robert Lee's left boot.
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The company said it would have been impossible to keep the new soybeans from finding their way into human food.
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You must learn to find your way through the menu maze before you can use the program efficiently.
get (sb) somewhere/anywhere/nowhere
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Annie A very nice symbolic action, but on its own it gets us exactly nowhere.
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Anxiety will get you nowhere, wrote Harsnet.
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Continual moaning and criticism of others gets you nowhere.
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Everyone has got to start somewhere.
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It doesn't get you anywhere.
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Looks like he hated Albert more than anything-but he never would let him get a job anywhere else.
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New York gave you freedom, indulged tastes and vices that could get you hanged somewhere else, but at a price.
get the hell out (of somewhere)
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Tell Amy to get the hell out of my house.
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But then I heard some one hollering at me, telling me to get the hell out of there.
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He had already decided to move, he wanted to get the hell out of there.
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I think we should get the hell out of here.
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So I wanted to get the hell out of there.
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The car turning in the road, getting the hell out.
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The men wanted to get the hell out as fast as possible - they were concerned about survival.
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Why on earth didn't I just tell Luke everything and get the hell out?
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You don't wait to pick up personal belongings, you just get the hell out.
push/grope/inch etc your way somewhere
something/someone/somewhere etc or other
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Almost all our citizens are indicted for something or other .
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Calls himself Jack something or other .
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He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other .
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Iris is off somewhere or other for the next few days.
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It was decided by someone or other that we would stay out at Lima with the grunts.
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Later on, we were on another job, looking after a defence minister from somewhere or other .
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Nineteen fifty something or other convertible.
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Somebody else got a chocolate something or other .
somewhere along the line
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Somewhere along the line , we just stopped talking to each other.
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And somewhere along the line , the street became an idea.
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But somewhere along the line they stopped laughing when they compared their own results with what we were achieving.
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But somewhere along the line , downhill skiing was too much of a chore and an expense.
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Every accident may be regarded as the result of the action of a human being somewhere along the line .
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He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line .
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If he did, the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line .
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They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
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You missed your forte somewhere along the line , Meg.
take somewhere by storm
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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From somewhere along the corridor there came the sound of laughter.
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I know I saw it somewhere , but I can't remember exactly where.
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I know their house is somewhere near here.
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She lives somewhere near Manchester.
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She needs to find somewhere to live before starting her new job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cars went past in a hurry to somewhere .
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He supposed it was somewhere under the rug, perhaps held on to by old Josh as some sort of comforter.
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He survived and is now believed to be hiding somewhere in the United States under federal protection.
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It's been in the mud somewhere .
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So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this, in a very poor state of repair.
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The concept of walking around looking somewhere between medium-rare and well-done is relatively recent.
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The pathfinder, hidden in the tree line somewhere , told us everybody was loaded and to take off to the left.
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Weaving through the hills was the Owens River aqueduct, and somewhere along its course were the Alabama Gates.