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