Example sentences of "[verb] somebody in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He found out next day that Molassi had knifed somebody in the confusion . |
| 2 | And your answers should be couched in the terms that you would answer somebody in the pub , in that you 're giving them the information , you 're giving it to them in a clean way . |
| 3 | And I said , If somebody 's serving somebody in the shop and perhaps they you know two of three of them perhaps together , I said , but do n't talk in the shop I said , go through to the back if you want to chat . |
| 4 | Which meant we 'd always got somebody in the house , sort of baby-sitting really . |
| 5 | Suddenly , they heard somebody in the passage , and Madame Giry , Meg 's mother , ran into the room . |
| 6 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 7 | This has the positive advantage of giving them a broad-based appeal across a diversified range of industries and functions and always having somebody in the team who can potentially suit the chemistry of a particular client . |
| 8 | Was it because you knew somebody in the factory or was it the wages that attracted you ? |
| 9 | He is n't a cousin or any relation but we thought somebody in the town must know of him or where he went . ’ |
| 10 | Only one crew member with all the technology in the world , some of us still think that it 's a comfort to have somebody in the back watching the systems . |
| 11 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 12 | Because the way he was wiring them to start with , would have killed somebody in the end . |