Example sentences of "[that] somebody had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was just , I was hearing the other day that somebody had smoked sixty a day |
| 4 | Her eyebrows rose in astonishment when she saw that somebody had taken her parking place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's logical that somebody had to bring it in . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I turned to find that somebody had capsized in the shallowest part of the river . |
| 11 | erm Arthur used to listen and in the end er , I think Johnny went off , you know , satisfied that somebody had listened to him |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |