Collocations for "someone"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "someone" in context.
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someone
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- someone [knocked, spoke, started]
- heard someone [knocking]
- lend someone [an ear, some money]
- [need, want, require] a certain someone (for)
- [wants, is keen, plans] to be someone
- need someone to [help, work, make, stay, guard, go, check]
- [ask, tell] someone
- arranged for someone to [meet, collect, take] us
- should someone [check, find out, go first]?
- there's someone at the [door, entrance]
- someone in [need, despair, distress]
- someone from the [crowd, audience, class]
- (I need) someone like you [in my life, working for me]
- I [mistook you for, thought you were] someone [else, I knew]
- someone else's [problem, idea, things]
'someone' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
blow
- calm
- depend
- friend
- hurt
- jump
- live
- match
- mistake
- notice
- pair
- partner
- pay
- remind
- sense
- shelter
- speak
- sport
- stay
- steal
- tell
- view
- wait
- air
- bike
- blame
- channel
- corner
- death
- door
- group
- job
- shoe
- sex
- security
- certain
- whose
- whenever
- public
- nervous
- brake
- punch
- daddy
- discipline
- kitty
- bail
- bell
- bicycle
- bomb
- foe