Somebody

Examples

• Somebody has nailed this wooden seat in. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There should be somebody with her, said Rebecca. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Somebody must find out wot's been done at the office,' said Mr. Sikes in a much lower tone than he had taken since he came in. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The truth is, that she was the only girl in company for you to notice, and you must have a somebody. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• For this seems to me nothing but the resuscitation of the devil: when things go wrong it is somebody else's fault. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Burke, now:--when I think of Burke, I can't help wishing somebody had a pocket-borough to give you, Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Surely somebody has taught you, she added, with amiable archness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Somebody pays for this, is a thought that naturally occurs to us; who pays? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Do I mind being cruelly treated by Somebody Else? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The strengtheners and the lowerers were all clever men in somebody's opinion, which is really as much as can be said for any living talents. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Somebody, I says, is forcing of a door, or window; what's to be done? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But Mr. Bruff reminded me that somebody must put my cousin's legacy into my cousin's hands--and that I might as well do it as anybody else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Was it not the doctor, but somebody else? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She has offended somebody: who never forgives--whose rage redoubled when he saw you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Here's somebody coming out of another house; put me into the chair. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

Typist: Nathaniel