Example sentences of "because nobody [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We end , after a protracted flashback , with Casaubon unable to go to the police because nobody would believe his story . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 … . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I wear a mask because nobody must know who that person is . |
| 6 | You 'll have to promise to stop railing , because nobody must hear us , or realise what we 're doing . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We were sure that Justine would be free after the trial , because nobody could believe that she was a murderer . |
| 12 | Got ta be , there a , it 's a complex really because nobody will agree , erm , give , bringing up a kid will they ? |
| 13 | gazumped , because nobody will take him , cos he knows absolutely nothing , about nothing else apart from butchery , it 's the same with me I ca n't work a computer so I 'm cramped in the way of clerical , it 's no good applying for half of them because you 've got to have keyboard skills and erm computer skills |
| 14 | There 's a sort of audience participation because nobody can control these crowds . |
| 15 | We ca n't ask if they 've seen Tamsin because nobody can hear . |
| 16 | These decisions are taken privately , without reference to what everyone else is doing , because nobody can know what everyone else is doing . |