Example sentences of "somebody at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a happy precedent and if Mr Major is to avoid it , he needs somebody at the Treasury who commands confidence , and who deserves it . |
| 2 | That is to say , there was someone with the responsibility for each operation accountable to ‘ somebody at the top ’ . |
| 3 | To somebody at the Company who 's coming to do a talk there . |
| 4 | Stop me if you 've heard this , but one of those gunsels opened up on somebody at the rear entrance of the Regal Arms Hotel . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm going to talk to somebody at the shop — the sister if possible . ’ |
| 6 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
| 7 | I thought that was brilliant , is there somebody at the door ? |
| 8 | So there 's classic sort of stories about organisation where the the er president of the organisation asks somebody to investigate something and that gets translated by the vice president into sort of rather more hostile sort of thing and basically it ends up with somebody at the bottom of the pile having their ass kicked or whatever because it 's been translated , or mis- translated down , okay ? |
| 9 | You could , could the window tre the cleaner get through that window he said yes , but she 'll have to , he 'll have to force it , she said oh I do n't want it forcing , no , somebody at the shop in the greengrocers rooted through the phone book , eventually got her daughter 's phone number in Urmston , phoned for her and her daughter come down |
| 10 | There 's somebody at the door . |
| 11 | You say there 's somebody at the ? it 's a thing |
| 12 | Did n't even tell somebody at the door ! |
| 13 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 14 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 15 | Say ooh there 's somebody at the door , have to go . |
| 16 | ooh our Michael , ooh , ooh there 's somebody at the door , I 'll have to go . |
| 17 | And you could have ten minutes on the phone and say ooh I 'll have to go , there 's somebody at the door . |