Example sentences of "and nobody could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you are practically forced into a close encounter , and nobody could miss the electricity between the two of you . |
| 2 | She would behave like someone who was n't being unfaithful , and nobody could accuse her of behaving like that . |
| 3 | Orders came to the guardroom to stand to ; priority telegrams recalled those on leave ; station defences were considerably strengthened ; living-out people were hastily brought back , and nobody could leave the camp . |
| 4 | N : I had a dream , it was a great dream where everyone was one colour and all the same height and nobody could tell them apart |
| 5 | It was a whirlwind romance , all right , and nobody could talk any sense into Freda . |
| 6 | I had no lights , and nobody could see us . |
| 7 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 8 | ‘ Thomas is an extremely bright boy , but for years he was made to feel stupid because he was falling behind his classmates and nobody could understand why , ’ said Mr Bland , a communications con sultant . |
| 9 | ‘ But it was three-and-a-half years in development and nobody could foresee at the start what the economy would be like now . |
| 10 | In the evenings they washed corridors — that had to be an evening job so that the floors would be dry by morning and nobody could slip on them — and did out lavatories . |
| 11 | The purges have proved to be one of the most hotly debated topics for historians because , due to the harsh censorship and killing of many opponents of Stalin , there is a lack of opinion and primary sources which show how they affected the whole country , and nobody could read Stalin 's obviously warped mind to find out his reasons for this holocaust . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothin' and nobody could kill Tommy Prescott . ’ |
| 13 | In the worst possible case , that would slice A$250m off the result for this year , and nobody could have expected him to make up that sort of ground . |
| 14 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
| 15 | Her door was locked and nobody could get into her room . |
| 16 | And nobody could get out of the cupboard , because I was standing in the doorway . |