Example sentences of "[noun sg] nobody [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was to travel the twenty miles by train , into the city , and they were to meet , in the restaurant of Marshall and Snelgrove , to have coffee and talk , to shop together for this and that , a new spring suit , some curtain material , a lampshade and the Ceylon tea nobody would stock in the village , and back for lunch , and then for tea , with aching feet and happy conversation , until their trains home . |
| 2 | I have one message for the whole primary health care team and it is : take chest pain or chest discomfort seriously ; if you make a mistake when the diagnosis is hiatus hernia nobody will mind very much ; the other way round you risk lives . |
| 3 | M. Nobody can order you about any more . |
| 4 | It would still have been very difficult to explain to the Indians that they were selling their land in perpetuity , and of course nobody could have had any idea of the immense flood of immigrants that was going to cross the Atlantic . |
| 5 | So of course nobody can describe ‘ god ’ to you . |
| 6 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 7 | They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory . |
| 8 | He chose a five percent discount rate table and in my opinion nobody could fault such a choice . |
| 9 | If there was a helluva crash along the road and 19 buses fell off the bridge into Queen Street Station nobody would notice . ’ |
| 10 | Because at the end of the day nobody would take the job . |
| 11 | When one day nobody could rouse him from his trailer , it was Lee Marvin who entered quietly and found a sombre , lonely , sad man . |
| 12 | it was a hopeless job , go to the library nobody would know what happened to bicycles , and also , we always circulated a list of stolen property to all pawnbrokers , jewellers , garage owners , and cycle agents , about every week . |
| 13 | He was the sort of man nobody would look at twice . |
| 14 | yes , without little food nobody can live can they ? |
| 15 | That way nobody would raise too many objections about Emily going out to work . |
| 16 | Without proof nobody will believe our story . |
| 17 | I mean I I would say that was an abuse of the position of power , because if he was Joe Bloggs in the street nobody would listen to what he was saying about electoral reform ! |
| 18 | There is plenty of skilled labour available and given the short-term view nobody will train . |
| 19 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |