Example sentences of "and nobody [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two-thirds of Americans have never had any reason to think of the British as their Anglo-Saxon cousins ; the East European émigrés who ran the studios were no more likely than their successors to look upon British producers as partners , and nobody would queue to see a film just because it was British . |
| 2 | Because motor cars did n't go at great speeds and nobody would dream of taking a motor car to Edinburgh when the railway was there and could get you in Edinburgh within three quarters of an hour . |
| 3 | I think I could probably leave the front door open all night and nobody would walk in . |
| 4 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 5 | But he sympathised with others : ‘ You can see how it would do the post offices harm and nobody would want that , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And nobody would pay anything to anyone unless they could get it back somehow . |
| 7 | Well , plenty of tourists spend their mornings in museums and picture galleries and cathedrals , and nobody would quarrel with them for that . |
| 8 | They 'd see us coming hours before we got up there on foot , the girl would have been spirited away before we got anywhere near her and nobody would speak to us except in their incomprehensible dialect . |
| 9 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 10 | ‘ You could have had an abortion and nobody would have known . |
| 11 | She might have stayed out , and nobody would have known . |
| 12 | We 've been very careful not to be seen to be interfering or for anybody to think that we were going to tell groups how they would run their groups , because the groups are fairly autonomous and they pre-existed parish councils er , but a you know this is almost a direct invitation and we could actually respond to this in terms of an invitation and ask other groups if they would be interested in our respon in our going to , to visit them , rather than a surgery where maybe we 'd sit here and nobody would turn up . |
| 13 | " It would be a war nobody wants , nobody intends , and nobody would win , " he said that night . |
| 14 | I just do n't think the two things match , but over and above that it 's totally unnecessary and nobody would put a gipsy site on one of the nicest avenues leading into a town . |
| 15 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
| 16 | I 've got a job that I love doing , and er , I also take the view that if I came and did this programme and moaned away at everybody , and er , moaned away about everything , nobody would ring me up , and nobody would listen . |
| 17 | She could play in it all by herself , and nobody would know she was there . |
| 18 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 19 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 20 | It was a terrible world where people could die and nobody would claim the remains . |
| 21 | No it 's not it 's qu it 's quite disgraceful and nobody would approve of that and the co th th th th the Army if they got hold of anybody on that basis , they would court martial them immediately and they 'd be very severely dealt with . |
| 22 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 23 | You 're all right if you can play a musical instrument one o' these one-string fiddles , Jew 's harp , ham-bone , play the comb , or one o' these sewing-machines ( gesticulates with his hands , pedals with his feet ) ; you can stick up a board in front of you saying ‘ Ex-Service Man ’ , ‘ Hero ’ , put on a row of medals — an' you can go into any of these back streets and nobody 'll stop you . |
| 24 | You see at at you can walk around , go in a pub , have a drink , come out and nobody 'll say anything to you , there 's no trouble round there . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , 'And now we will play the film , play , book and song game because you 're drunk and ripe for laughs and nobody shall deny me . ’ |
| 26 | Now nothing and nobody can travel for any great distance in the valley without my knowing exactly where he |
| 27 | Everybody seems to know everybody else and nobody can do anything without someone knowing what is going on . |
| 28 | It is an illustration of the way in which ‘ The Thing ’ works by substituting nonsense for sense , so that presently everybody is talking nonsense , and nobody can talk sense any more . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not my fault , ’ she whimpered in the dark of the hall , ‘ indeed it is not my fault , and nobody can blame me , nobody can raise their voice to me , for it is not my fault . ’ |
| 30 | All three elements have to come in to any budget decision and nobody can ignore all three , indeed if you look around three groups of the council you 'll see that all the budget proposed tonight will take into account all three areas . |