Example sentences of "somebody [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 2 | Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she 'd have somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man . |
| 3 | Well I think that she was trying to keep him dangling so that she had somebody to fall back on if she did n't land another man . |
| 4 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 5 | None of the combinations of possible future events meant anything at all , nor could mean anything until somebody caught up with Vecchi . |
| 6 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 7 | A plant yes , because if you 're solving problems you want somebody to come up with some good ideas to get you out of your rut . |
| 8 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 9 | You want somebody to come up with some divergent ways of thinking . |
| 10 | They should have somebody to come out at night really |
| 11 | She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house . |
| 12 | Let's imagine somebody wonders in to John Major one day and he says you know , I 've a bit of a problem John . |
| 13 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 14 | There 's somebody looking out of a window up there , looking a bit worried . |
| 15 | does somebody dress up as an Easter bunny ? |
| 16 | I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them . |
| 17 | You know , when somebody came up with Mehetabelle , or something like that . |
| 18 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 19 | is the aim , what , I mean somebody came up with the aim , in actual fact , despite whatever else you might be doing , whatever politics were behind it , the aim was to prevent AIDS no matter what you were doing , and not to have any kind of prejudice against what you were doing as long as the aim |
| 20 | Somebody came up to me and said , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 21 | just ignore , I 'd , I 'd ignore the person , what , so if somebody came up to me and said you go out with Henry in it ? |
| 22 | Somebody came out of the room , and into the dark passage . |
| 23 | If somebody came back from lunch late without having informed him , he really berated the offender . |
| 24 | I was called away one morning , somebody came along to me and said will you come along to Street , there 's a chap playing up , old Harry , he 's trying to build a shed or something and it 's two o'clock in the morning , none of us can sleep , do come along with me . |
| 25 | But Caspar said this was unlikely ; the Draoicht Suan would probably keep everyone inside Tara asleep until somebody came along with the counter-spell . |
| 26 | I remember somebody came in at the shop and says the Newminster School had been sent home , but where , which school 's that ? |
| 27 | ‘ Somebody holed out in an ammunition dump . ’ |
| 28 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |
| 29 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 30 | Now we need an optimistic accountant , can somebody look out for an optimistic accountant |