Example sentences of "somebody [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He probably will have six later on , if he gets it off , but the thing is , I mean , he 'll need somebody to drive wagons round yard , and half the time , y you know , he 'll be sat doing nothing , scratching his nose .
2 It 's , they are not actually responsible for it , I do n't think , but something that has happened that , that has caused somebody to see food in a different manner .
3 ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’
4 Somebody brushes sand off his drum ,
5 Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong .
6 Somebody got hold of him at Edgbaston Golf Club one morning and asked him if he wanted a job this season — carrying for Brian Harley .
7 Well I do n't know somebody say Mao leading to such and a such a phase or
8 If somebody studies A-Level Economics , then business studies A-Level is quite possible within one week or two weeks tuition .
9 yes , I got a bit tired out because erm somebody mentioned table tennis and I said oh I 've been wanting a game for years !
10 I think somebody mentioned mortgage interest tax relief , that is n't means tested as far as I am aware . .
11 Somebody said it was on the , was it you you said you know somebody mentioned charts .
12 You ca n't actually force somebody to accept treatment unless they fall into certain categories erm and those categories are very small erm
13 I 've come across we agree er , or Jimmy feels now once somebody writes Jimmy feels it 's , it 's almost intrinsic that , is that the word I want ?
14 Curtis telephoned the seamen 's shelter and asked somebody to find Titch and get him to ring back .
15 But Johansson warned : ‘ If somebody has ideas he should know we are always prepared to discuss it .
16 Somebody has animosity towards the family .
17 Somebody want cup of tea or coffee or ?
18 Like Mrs Th le let's hear somebody do Mrs Thatcher then .
19 I mean , we are all er very sympathetic at the end of the twentieth century , but , you know , we can still laugh when somebody says fart on stage .
20 Somebody hollers law , and the boys go take a look-see .
21 ‘ There 's no doubt the decision was made by somebody living miles away without any thought for the people here . ’
22 Somebody stole the Wolvercote Tongue , and somebody murdered Kemp !
23 Somebody told Evelyn they got a , she got a thousand pounds for slipping on pavement .
24 If somebody give things like that to me instead of maybe chocolates or cake .
25 I was just a stranger up here in Liverpool , coming from Scotland and I did n't have anybody backing me , which a lot of people do — somebody pulling strings for them .
26 Somebody hated Puddephat enough to kill him ! ’
27 When somebody approaches Traidcraft to sell their products for them , they get a , a detailed , four-page I think , questionnaire to fill in about the company , and how they run and what they do .
28 ‘ Would somebody ring Morley , Bob , ’ he said , scarcely opening his mouth to let the words out , ‘ and ask him where his copy is ?
29 But you see somebody like P C , being an older person he does it properly I suppose , is what
30 To have to lie there in his coffin on Ingham 's counter and hear somebody like Tommy Drennan murder a good song like ‘ Slievenamon ’ and himself lying there and could do nothing about it !
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