Example sentences of "[subord] nobody [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thousand feet above sea level and defenceless against extremes of weather , it is a wilderness where nobody would choose to live . |
| 2 | So we hid it somewhere really good , where nobody 'd think of looking ! — Anyway , it do n't matter about putting it in the bank now , does it ? |
| 3 | I have a place to go to , where nobody will find us or talk about us — ’ |
| 4 | We disappear into the darkness , where nobody can see that we 're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy . |
| 5 | ‘ She did not leave them to me , so nobody shall have them . ’ |
| 6 | When I went out robbing , it 'd be the early hours of the morning , one or two in the morning , so nobody 'd notice me missing here . |
| 7 | The school receded into the distance as the pupils skimmed above the treetops , and Mildred was grateful that no talking was allowed in flight , so nobody could ask her any awkward questions . |
| 8 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 9 | The ground floor windows were barred like a prison , so nobody could climb in or out . |
| 10 | Few hours later he calls , we 're the funeral parlour , right ? he 's recommended us , we do the honours , bury them , ’ and his mouth opened like a grave , you could fall into that mouth for ever and ever , amen , and all those crooked grey teeth of his , no names that you could see , no names or dates , just blank , so nobody could find you , nobody could visit , nobody could leave flowers . |
| 11 | There 's nobody in my house except me tonight , so nobody will know about your visit . ’ |
| 12 | The Doctor had four balls in the air now , although nobody could see where the extra one had come from . |
| 13 | of course that is a point that we 've made all the way through , it 's not if nobody would bid , it 's if the franchising director was not satisfied with the quality or the long term viability of the bids he 'd received |
| 14 | Well if nobody can bring you home then you phone here alright ? |
| 15 | ‘ And they 'll die in six hours , forty-two minutes if nobody can help them . ’ |
| 16 | ca n't have erm Mr doing that cos nobody would understand him would they ? |
| 17 | I mean , we could be in a predicament that we 've got to stay in there cos nobody will buy it ! |
| 18 | You 'll have to throw that one again cos nobody can tell , one , one , one , ah got it |
| 19 | So then Sir Bruce got hopping mad because nobody would tell him who they were talking about , and asked why they were so certain you were involved , and Six — it was that luminous dong Guy Husband and some new pin-up boy who runs the East German section-said they had their reasons and George could explain more . |
| 20 | We end , after a protracted flashback , with Casaubon unable to go to the police because nobody would believe his story . |
| 21 | ‘ I have said nothing because nobody would believe me if I did , because a doctor 's word would always be taken against his secretary 's , and because … . ’ |
| 22 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 23 | ‘ I wear a mask because nobody must know who that person is . |
| 24 | You 'll have to promise to stop railing , because nobody must hear us , or realise what we 're doing . ’ |
| 25 | Cotterell was at his desk , a large mahogany monster that had been inherited with the premises because nobody could face the idea of carrying it down the stairs . |
| 26 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 27 | Whoever had washed up last night had n't cleaned the cooker , there was no light-bulb in the one cell in the basement and someone had had to be dispatched to wake up the ironmonger because nobody could find a spare . |
| 28 | And we rather assume that item 3 immediately under that was again F G B and not S D G , because nobody could work out what S D G stands for . |
| 29 | We were sure that Justine would be free after the trial , because nobody could believe that she was a murderer . |
| 30 | Got ta be , there a , it 's a complex really because nobody will agree , erm , give , bringing up a kid will they ? |