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someplace

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1880, OED Evaluation: dial. and U.S.

Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.

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Like I just was not a city person you-know? And so ah, I- I- I w-- I needed to get someplace where it was calmer and quieter and soon as I came to the country, I always told people oh I'm just going there to sort things out but I never left, you-know, so (laughs)-
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And ah anyway ah, they had- the mass resources that too many camps being built close together. ... but every time I went some place I (inc) another gang there. We were kind-of in the centre.
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Where is she living? In town some place?
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See, the only thing I hated, your taking history of other countries, you never knew about yourself, your own country. And I guess they're still that way today, aren't they? ... You-know, sit and learn about my own country rather than some place else, eh?
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I think they went to school up around (inc) some place.
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He would have a big ice-house then some place.
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And ah they had bought a car from one of the wealthy sheikhs over in Egypt or some place. It was the first car. I can't even remember the name of it now. But anyway, and they went on a tour around and I guess there was people coming out all over the place 'cause they had never seen a car before, you-know?
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... I said, "This is going to be a seller! I could cut stuff like- you go to lumber mill or-someplace, well we've got twelve inch and twelve inch and- well if you want to make a coffee table, you need a big one, eighteen or twenty inches so- ...
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I made a big ah pergola, I think they call it for a bed-and-breakfast down at- ah the mansion down there. She got the pattern someplace-or-other and ah asked her husband about making it.
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Speaker: Yeah, and- and the family that owned it were called Farleys and they used to live across from the Tubman's-Funeral-Home and ... it was some place what- we were younger, we didn't get to go because we were too young sor-- but we all occasionally got to peek in sort of- Interviewer: And you could see the adults dancing in there? Speaker: Yes, yeah.
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Interviewer: Ellie, where would that house have been? ... Speaker: By the arena area there, some place, but it was an old, old- and she lived there. And ah, cross lady.
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... went there for a beer maybe on a Saturday, you-know, as was a treat. Remember him taking my brothers there when they were, you-know, old enough to- to have a beer, him taking. And ah, yeah. And I thought, "No, I was never ever in this place." It was some place you didn't go.
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Speaker: ... they were looking for homes for the people to go to some- Interviewer 1: Because they couldn't take them all at the hospital, is that why? Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Interviewer 2: Okay. So they were injured? Speaker: Yes. But not- not bad enough that, you-know, it was just some place for them to go and stay in 'til they you know, returned to where they were- ... Interviewer 2: Yeah, it was just a sad thing. The tragic event.
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Oh he could always scan that too I suppose if he wanted to and then the image could be put on- you-know, online so that people could see it. ... Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And-- yeah and then we have ah, some place we have- (telephone rings) sorry.
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Is that- there was one some place and they didn't get though somewhere.
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What would I do without this guy, you-know? ... I would be way up in Maberly someplace.
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Interviewer: So then you- you went to the beer store? Speaker: Yeah that's where we put all the lunches. We had to find some place that was cold to keep them so they'd be fresh ... Overnight.
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... his dad worked at Camp-Borden when the war first broke out and then um, he worked some place else and then he ah went to the motors, he was working at the motors. They come home this night and had supper and he said he wasn't feeling very good and all of a sudden, he just toppled over and he was gone. He had a heart attack.
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... it was the old days, very few people had cars. ... So if people wanted to go some place, they walked or drove a buggy.
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Coached hockey and then the kids- boys were grown up (inc) would be cur-- curling (inc) or some place and then I'd have a- a hockey tournament all at the same time, I'd be running from one to the other (inc) you really-
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