Example sentences of "nobody had any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The increase in the number of prosecutions did not result , however , in a feeling of sympathy for homosexuals , but rather the feeling , as John Wolfenden expressed it , that ‘ nobody had any idea how much of it there was … but there was an impression that it was increasing ; and there was a feeling that if it was then it ought to be curbed ’ .
2 The monopoly was normal practice , and the boundary chosen was intended simply to make sure that the Company did not go east of the Bay into areas claimed by New France ; nobody had any idea that the river system of the Bay gave the Company an area — known as Rupert 's Land after Prince Rupert , the Governor of the Company — that covered millions of square miles to the west .
3 It was , in fact , the clearing centre at Le Boulou , but nobody had any idea then where we were or where we were going .
4 So nobody had any problems with that .
5 Nobody had any problems in finding a space of their own to search in peace .
6 The assassins had never been traced , and the British authorities had said they were Sinn Feiners ; it was a stupid accusation , for MacCurtain had been a staunch Republican himself , so nobody had any doubt that the killers were Black and Tans .
7 Dennis Waterman felt like going to the canteen so we took him down , got all the food to the check-out , and then discovered that nobody had any money !
8 I saw no Minnas or Brendas in Ballachulish that day , maybe a Kylie Minogue in the supermarket , and nobody had any folk memories of tame jackdaws .
9 Nobody had any suggestions .
10 ‘ Nobody could say it was right or wrong because nobody had any insight into what the answer should be , ’ he says .
11 I was very annoyed over the whole business this end , when it transpired that nobody had any information on the subject either .
12 Like Hannele , nobody who was nobody had any doubts that Britain and her Empire would be victorious : only the grey men in their boiled shirts and wing collars , who strode the streets of Westminster in rain or shine with black hat and rolled umbrella , were afraid .
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