Example sentences of "[conj] somebody had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something he had said or somebody had said , something … |
| 2 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 3 | ‘ Something he 'd seen , or somebody had seen ; whatever . |
| 4 | Perhaps Divitiacus had read his Posidonius — or somebody had read Posidonius to him . |
| 5 | Flora or somebody had told her where to find him . |
| 6 | Douglas burst open the door into the first , where somebody had lit a lamp . |
| 7 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 8 | Then I went down to my dressing room and there was this big , long note that somebody had written and stuck on my dresser , saying , ‘ How dare you bask in the reflected glory of others ’ and stuff like that . |
| 9 | I was just , I was hearing the other day that somebody had smoked sixty a day |
| 10 | Her eyebrows rose in astonishment when she saw that somebody had taken her parking place . |
| 11 | Some of Harvard 's clients reneged on their agreements to sell when the price climbed , making ridiculous claims , like that the dog had chewed up the allotment letter , or that somebody had sold as a practical joke . |
| 12 | It 's logical that somebody had to bring it in . ’ |
| 13 | Standing there with his upturned collar and downturned straw hat , from which wisps of smoke still issued , he looked like a garden gnome that somebody had thrown accidentally on to the barbecue . |
| 14 | Joan recalled what happened : ‘ Apparently the soldier opened the bag and something fell out and he thought it was a paw and that somebody had thrown a dog into the river . |
| 15 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 16 | I turned to find that somebody had capsized in the shallowest part of the river . |
| 17 | erm Arthur used to listen and in the end er , I think Johnny went off , you know , satisfied that somebody had listened to him |
| 18 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 19 | But you knew that somebody had bought it , all right , because the plane would start to nose-dive , and something funny would happen to the engine tone . |
| 20 | One angry worker explained : ‘ They said they did not have sufficient money to sustain capital investment and pay shareholders , so somebody had to draw the short straw and it was us . ’ |
| 21 | It would have been nice actually if somebody had said , we 're not going to have quality management , we 're going to have uck management . |
| 22 | I mean if it ha if somebody had said it was Danny from the Tri-Club I would have had a |
| 23 | She was almost sure that if somebody had asked her about all this business when she had first woken in the back of the vehicle , she could , despite her pain and discomfort , have replied . |
| 24 | ‘ The lad 's got a point there , ’ said Purvis as if somebody had asked him . |
| 25 | As she rang off and Sarella was left holding the phone she thought she heard a click on the line as if somebody had replaced an extension . |
| 26 | A certain gentleman might have been punished if somebody had passed by and seen them . ’ |
| 27 | Even if somebody had picked it up , maybe they had done so by mistake . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ If somebody had known the bloody rules , they could have told us straight away and it would have been no problem at all . |
| 29 | If my right hand had n't felt as if somebody had grafted a bunch of bananas on to it and then dipped it in acid , it would have been a pleasant experience . |
| 30 | If somebody had put a match to it , it up there you see , it would then come under S S A , |