Sentences with phrase «somebody handed it to»

One of the nicest stories that we hear at comic conventions, and it's a story we hear a lot, is «I didn't know this book existed, and then I was going through something in my life, and somebody handed it to me.

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«So simply making eye contact with somebody, shaking hands, giving somebody a high - five is enough to release oxytocin, which increases your level of trust and it lowers your cortisol levels.
I can tell you first hand: it would be nice to have somebody with these marketing abilities to help me run my social accounts.
Sometimes you got ta enjoy an idea for what it is and hand it off to somebody and see what they can do.»
On the other hand, if you genuinely come across as somebody who wants to make a meaningful contribution to his niche, you will be trusted.
«I can hand off the baton to somebody else and give myself the opportunity to do something else that could also have another impact.»
Suppose somebody handed you a proven step - by - step guide that showed you how to turn your ideas into successful products.
For me, it's somebody who's willing to extend out that hand and shake the hand of somebody they didn't know five minutes ago.
religion was estabished to keep peopke in line, weak mined people need somebody to hold there hand in life
Somebody necessarily lend a hand to make critically articles I might state.
You never have the right to put your hands on somebody over words.
The difference here is that the ACA just shows up to hand out food without holding your sandwich hostage by making you listen to somebody preach the gospels to you.
Handed down verbally from generation to generation until somebody finally decided to put down in writing the most embellished version of the original story.
Tim Guns are in kids» hands because there are incredible numbers of guns around for them to buy from somebody, steal, and otherwise get their hands on.
On the one hand, I am extremely grateful that somebody is doing something to save lives, and make a difference in impoverished countries.
Reason tells me to be open to the idea that somebody else had a hand in it.
«On the one hand, we have somebody who - if he isn't redeemed - faces death or danger or captivity, versus a theoretical possibility that someone could be harmed if these people go back to terror,» he said.
I hope somebody out there enjoys reading my thoughts (even if it's just to laugh at them), but more than that, I hope they make somebody think; yes, I do have far to much time on my hands tonight, but if I hadn't been writing this, I'd be doing some other writing exercise, so this was not really a frivolous pursuit.
You, on the other hand, want to boycott somebody, excluded them from your shopping list, attempt to hurt them financially because of their views.
Religion (any religion) is a cult for people who need somebody to hold their hands to be a better person.
«How can I tell somebody that God is there when,» he ran his hand through the air next to him, «THERE»S NOTHING THERE.
On the one hand there is the drive to be somebody, a drive often expressed in substituting power for love.
«On the one hand, we have somebody who — if he isn't redeemed — faces death or danger or captivity, versus a theoretical possibility that someone could be harmed if these people go back to terror».
Things started to happen to me: I'd just be shaking hands with somebody, and the person would say, «Let go, I feel like electricity is in your hands
As he stood to shake hands with me after signing, I said to him, «Manuel, to be a success in anything you do you must put your trust in somebody and have confidence in him.
«To feel that raw emotion coming out of somebody is the single - handed reason why I'm still here.»
Pointing fingerguns at somebody doesn't mean you literally want to shoot people, and Loftin playing along with this hand gesture doesn't mean he condones marijuana use.
I don't think it will be hard for them to find somebody to come here, redshirt, and learn the system before being handed the keys.
Add it all up and you come away with a tall, strong, physical receiver with pretty good hands who can get down the field, jump over cornerbacks to make catches, as well as make somebody miss in space if he is allowed to get going.
And he'll be handing the ball off to somebody named Javorius «Buck» Allen.
All I can see was he tried to step through and tried to go help the teammate that had somebody from another team had a hand on his teammates» face mask pushing him in the face.
One by one, hour by hour, day by day since 1958, he has not only shaken their hands and signed their picture postcards, but he has also talked to them — «talked to me just like I was somebody» as so many have said so often.
It culminated with somebody pushing over Guus Hiddink — the cuddliest man in football — and Cesc Fabregas complaining to an official that a nasty man had stood on his hand and it really, really hurt.
If somebody wasn't using two hands to make a catch, he'd have him not open his mitt and catch the ball with the outside of the mitt, forcing the kid to use his other hand.
Nobody is gonna tell you how much money you're worth better than somebody who wants to get their hands on it.
Then suddenly, because somebody hits your hand on purpose - they just need to lift the ball to anybody's arm in the box - it's a goal.
«For me to just give a goal away because somebody kicks the ball at your hand would be ridiculous.
(I had a rootkit on my PC and had to make a recovery) I'm not informed about the recent incidents, but I am sure Wenger has good reasons if he doesn't shake hands with somebody.
The best advice here is to ask somebody who's had experience bathing babies to give you a hand the first time you try it.
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It must suck for somebody who cares so much about babies to see something like this going on, and seemingly getting out of hand.
It felt like I was handing a literal part of me like I had cut out a part of me which I guess was true and was now handing it over to somebody else.
It was such an empowering feeling to know we could do this, this is normal and natural and beautiful and it doesn't have to be in somebody else's hand.
On this occasion, I won't be caught sojourning in the reserved room at the Crowne Plaza in Holtsville, alternating Cokes and Heinekens while trying to figure out my best standing - posture through trial by error, until somebody walks in and shakes my hand.
By the process of inductive reasoning and with results now in hand, it can safely be presumed that somebody got to the barn before Bernardo and Wise.
Doing that work as just a «pair of hands... working at somebody's direction and not making a contribution intellectually» isn't enough to be named as an inventor, O'Reilly tells Science Careers.
And red blood cells settle to the bottom which is why if you've seen somebody who has died even after just an hour or so, you'll see very pale on top and kind of deeper redder color near where the, let's say, the hand of the body meets the ground.
Because if some genius Neandertal invents a new kind of hand axe — and they used the same kind for so long, for tens and tens [of] thousands of years — but if somebody in the cave invents a new one, it's not going to spread beyond that cave probably, it might not even spread that much within the cave; it's [likely] to die with him; whereas the modern humans have this thing of watching each other and teaching other and spreading things among themselves among one another, so that 10,000 or so --[it] might have been a few more, I know that the people are not too clear about that might — there might only have been 10,000 Neandertals all over Europe.
It looks like they needed anywhere from, what was it, 100 to 350 more calories a day, and that might not sound like much to us in our potato chip — laden world, where we can just, you know — and unfortunately do — pick up an extra 400 or 500 calories anytime we feel like it, but that could be a huge problem for somebody who's really, you know, living hand to mouth, just wondering where the next meal is going to come from everyday.
Steve: It's true, just as you said years ago I edited an article on the Komodo dragon of Bob and Ray fame; but there had been really only two people who had done serious research on Komodo dragons; some might argue with that and say that the number is closer to the fingers on one hand for somebody who hasn't spent a lot of time in machine shops.
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