Example sentences of "which nobody [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It immediately became economical to use polythene for all kinds of products , like plastic bags , which nobody had ever contemplated previously . |
| 2 | As they walked into the trattoria opposite their palazzo for the wedding breakfast to which nobody had been invited , she shivered slightly . |
| 3 | There was a gap which nobody had yet stepped into . |
| 4 | Knowing ahead of time what the classification of fish must look like is a great help if one is an expert only on birds and mollusca : and Swainson produced analogies which nobody had previously thought of . |
| 5 | The bridesmaid eventually turned up with a tale as long as her arm as to why , which nobody listened to . |
| 6 | This all adds up , not only to a valuable historical reference which nobody intending to perform this music could afford to ignore , but , in spite of its manifest shortcomings , to something which still stands head and shoulders above any of the other recordings in the current catalogue of this much missed composer . |
| 7 | The usual kind of education … is designed to give answers to questions which nobody asked and to inhibit the student in discovering his own truth and insight . |
| 8 | During the curious lull that followed , in which nobody seemed to get on or off , Miss Labrooy leaned forward in her seat and said : ‘ Do you know why I decided to help you when you came to the surgery last week , Mr Barnett ? |
| 9 | In fact the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building tucked away in a corner which nobody seemed very keen to visit ! |
| 10 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 11 | It is as if Dr Melvile , a psychologist , and Colin Johnson , a journalist , feel that they are springing a brilliantly new idea on us , which nobody has thought of before . |
| 12 | ‘ There is one thing which nobody has picked up on yet , ’ confides Alex late in the evening . |
| 13 | I was only going to say Chairman I wish people would n't band the figures around the council chamber which nobody has seen before therefore ca n't assess . |
| 14 | All these deaths were adding to a stockpile of dolphin oil , which nobody wanted , and meal for poultry food . |
| 15 | But I did write one thing at school , the school pantomime , which nobody wanted to be in anyway . |
| 16 | So I realized there was a secret at Thornfield , which nobody wanted to tell me . |
| 17 | There was , and perhaps needed to be , very little variation from an understood pattern — which nobody needed to prescribe , simply because everybody agreed on what it should be . |
| 18 | Some concessions seem harmless enough , those which nobody minds and from which many people gain enjoyment ; for example , reduced entrance fees for National Trust properties or Heritage sites . |
| 19 | The problem , needless to say , is the cost , which nobody knows but would be huge . |
| 20 | You always get trouble with them in psychological tests , cos you either use terms which nobody knows what they mean , or you use terms which people have meanings for and that 's not what you actually mean by them . |
| 21 | There 's a charm in the sound which nobody shuns , |
| 22 | ‘ A runaway winner , it is a party which nobody wants to leave ’ DAILY MAIL |
| 23 | And yet they 're bringing in these other things that er enormous cost which nobody wants and you 've still got ta pay , and if you have n't got one , if you have n't got the necessary er coin then that , that could lead to very anti social behaviour . . |
| 24 | But given that you 're really in the market place situation , if you have goods which nobody wants to sell then eventually you 're going to have to grind to a halt . |