Somebody'd

Somebody'd taken the end of cloth from one bolt and wrapped it around itself to start the next one, so the cloth spooled off the end of one bolt, then leapt up and plunged right down into the center of the next, one after the other, making a chain of fabric.

He Don't Know Him 2010

Somebody'd bagged a witch, so I spent the day chasing the yellow line.

Archive 2006-09-03 Miss Snark 2006

Somebody'd been made to talk somewhere, or trusted someone he shouldn't have - the risks irregulars inevitably took when fighting an occupying army more powerful than they.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

"Somebody'd better tell Lord Pelzed," Wanshig said.

The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

Somebody'd walk past you and drop maybe a lighted piece of notepaper in your lap.

Booknotes 10th Anniversary 1999

"Somebody'd buy the clubs, Irving would wake up or come out of this" 'she waved her hand toward the corner as though to indicate the whole mess, the adjustable back of the bed, the box of diapers, the cathe er bags" "and he would say, Selma, where the hell are my clubs?

Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

Somebody'd been shot and Sebastian had been arrested.

Mistress of Justice Deaver, Jeffery 1992

Somebody'd ordered up a dress parade and Nate's band played 'Dixie.'

Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

Somebody'd start a song the rest of them knowed, and they singin 'all over the factory.

Oral History Interview with Thomas Burt, February 6, 1979. Interview H-0194-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

Somebody'd be always around talking to them or something.

Oral History Interview with Johnnie Jones, August 27, 1976. Interview H-0273. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976