Example sentences of "that somebody [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 You thought British art had been ‘ needlessly neglected and undervalued and that somebody ought to do something about it ’ .
2 I kept thinking that somebody ought to say something to change the subject .
3 Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove .
4 Poor man , he was terrified that somebody might find out that he came here . ’
5 ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’
6 And Sladen did n't know what was going on , either , but I do n't think he wanted to ; he was just scared that somebody would start throwing coffee cups and he 'd get the blame .
7 Before leaving I looked around at the disorder wondering what was so important that somebody would go to so much trouble to look for it .
8 ‘ I am horrified that somebody would do such a thing .
9 Boy was like that , he was hoping that somebody would take him to the place where everybody else was .
10 ‘ No , I think it 's flattering that somebody would take the time .
11 After my warnings and reports , and then Tony 's murder , [ says Coleman ] I assumed that somebody would have the CIA on the carpet and close NARCOG down .
12 Allen is certain that somebody must have seen the caravan at some point that evening .
13 Bertha is quite right when she says that somebody must minister to the rich . ’
14 What they 're doing is they 're sending it so that somebody will place orders .
15 The answer must be that somebody will pay .
16 Sometimes you dare n't say yes , I like the way I look , because you 're afraid that somebody will judge you harshly : Why are you happy with the way you look , you 've got short mousey brown hair ? or whatever .
17 ‘ It is ridiculous that somebody should talk to a party and at the same time dictate to that party who should be heading it , ’ he said in an interview with The Independent .
18 I felt that somebody should give the other side … how such a tragedy brings all kinds of penalties in its wake . ’
19 But there 's a business going on there that somebody should put a spoke into , before something happens and a life is destroyed . ’
20 This is something unique ; and it is not surprising that somebody should have thought of the mystical chariot of Ezechiel .
21 Story of four people this is a story of four people named everybody , somebody , anybody and nobody , there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody could do it , anybody could of done it , but nobody did , somebody got angry about that because it was everybody 's job , everybody thought anybody could do it , but nobody would .
22 To know that somebody could read your mind , or move an object without touching it , seems unbelievable .
23 But otherwise it 's basically I think it 's , it 's all there , all you 're trying to do at this stage is , is to give , your aim here is to get is to get firstly , first of all , to get it on the diary , on the picture editor 's diary for your picture , and also to get the basic information in so that somebody can write a few cards as an advance to say it is going to happen .
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