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

No	Sentence
1	After the Conflagration ( his Monument being broken ) somebody made a little hole towards the upper edge of his Coffin , which was closed like the coffin of a Pye and was full of a Liquour which conserved the body .
2	Right , somebody asked a little while ago parametric and non-parametric stats .
3	She began to look , with a somewhat dull kind of hopefulness , for somebody friendly , not too much in a hurry , walking the opposite way , although it would be more reasonable , really , to ask somebody walking the same way .
4	‘ If somebody needs a technical briefing today on switching systems , I 'd have to pass , ’ says Speakes , 51 .
5	You have a case here which must be worth a lot of money , yet there is argument over whether somebody needs an electric toothbrush , how many toilet tissues he is going to use , etc . ’
6	Somebody wants a single bed moving , somebody might want a chest of drawers moving , somebody wants some packages so there were there 's quite a lot of of work of that nature wanted .
7	If somebody entered the National Gallery and defaced a Gainsborough they would be prosecuted .
8	Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident .
9	At least get somebody to clean the bloody windows ! ’
10	now what on earth has that got to do with a policy of a political party , the way somebody handles a lost Access card I wonder , mm ?
11	That is unfair , and it is also slightly sinister to say that , when somebody reaches a certain age , he can no longer receive care under the NHS .
12	You 're always afraid that somebody buys the same presents .
13	And I want somebody to help the little ones later on .
14	I do admire it when somebody gets a good score .
15	We 're all part of a community and everybody is collectively working to advance the cause , and every now and then somebody gets a little glimpse of something and everybody else thinks , ‘ Yeah , that 's a good idea . ’
16	Albert ( one of the boys studied ) : Well , somebody gets a weird idea into their head , and they start to carry it out , and others join in .
17	Somebody get a different colour .
18	Somebody get the other group back in ?
19	A short circuit is when somebody takes a short cut .
20	‘ Maybe for a short time somebody takes a free course at the great university of misery , and pays attention to the things he sees with his eyes and hears with his ears . ’
21	I excused myself and went to bed I think but she repeated it so solemnly you see not as , say somebody saying a joking sort of way .
22	Frankly , until somebody finds a better way to build a GTi , we 're all the competition we need .
23	Somebody put a frightened lake .
24	And if I may just , that 's the last thing I need to say is the Christmas Fair dates somehow were muddled up and somebody put the wrong dates to the day , it 's Wednesday the sixteenth and Thursday the seventeenth .
25	If somebody slipped a little cache of something into his plonk , they were probably irritated out of their tiny minds . ’
26	Yeah it 's for some er it 's for somebody to get a general idea of the kind of things that happen in lectures .
27	Simply observing vervets rush into trees when somebody gives a tonal call does not guarantee that it was the call that did it .
28	Now if you 're if somebody becomes a persistent discounter first of all they 'll they 'll question it back at head office .
29	you 've actually got somebody form the Inland Revenue have n't you ?
30	If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering .