Example sentences of "nobody could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she did n't move suddenly , nobody could spot anything unusual . |
| 2 | They were all brilliant people , but nobody could sit down and play . |
| 3 | Nobody could sit so still with her eyes open . |
| 4 | Nobody could dream that , you know , things that are in existence today , a hundred years ago , you know it was , it seemed impossible . |
| 5 | This guarantees total inadequacy , but the pay-off is ( a ) the knowledge that nobody could cope with all fifteen , and that therefore the failure does not reflect badly on him personally , and ( b ) some self-righteousness at how hard he is trying to contribute , and resentment at those who are not ‘ pulling their weight . |
| 6 | Hemming says that Brihtheah 's were made because he was from Berkshire and had no relatives in Worcestershire , and in Edward the Confessor 's time Bishop Hermann complained that nobody could hold the see of Ramsbury without the help of kinsmen . |
| 7 | Many constitutional lawyers have thought that the respect in which the problem differs under the constitution of the United Kingdom is that if a power of legislation be denied to Parliament in a particular respect , then an intolerable hiatus would exist in the legislative power — there would be some laws that nobody could enact . |
| 8 | Quite why this should have occurred nobody could explain , but Nigerian audiences had developed a particular liking for Jamaican ‘ toasters ’ — disc-jockeys who usurped the role of singers by half scatting , half shouting over backing tracks in a style half mystical , half political , but wholly saleable . |
| 9 | Ministers however were not at fault because ‘ nobody could tell that the stock market would go up 150 points since we priced the shares . |
| 10 | Nobody could tell me its correct name and it was known simply by the Greek equivalent of ‘ night-bloom ’ . |
| 11 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 12 | N : I had a dream , it was a great dream where everyone was one colour and all the same height and nobody could tell them apart |
| 13 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 14 | Afterwards nobody could tell us about our route and it may have been a first ascent — we still do not know . |
| 15 | But nobody could tell Hurley what to do . |
| 16 | We kept asking people what it meant , but nobody could tell us . |
| 17 | I 've often asked , but nobody could tell me for certain . ’ |
| 18 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 19 | But nobody could feel platonic about you , Miranda . ’ |
| 20 | Nobody could move in those Beirut sectors without the consent of the Syrian occupying forces . |
| 21 | Nobody could sleep at night . |
| 22 | Gordon Carlisle , chairman of the Law Society of Scotland 's planning committee , and a partner in Glasgow firm McClure Naismith Anderson & Gardiner , said : ‘ The result was going to be something nobody could rely on but which would , nevertheless , affect land values and cause blight . |
| 23 | Nobody could meet Edward Hyde without a feeling of dislike and horror . |
| 24 | And there were her looks , nobody could forget them , nobody except herself ; she never did a thing about them , as women do these days , she never gave a damn : as my father used to say , she wears her beauty lightly . |
| 25 | ‘ Nobody could fail to notice it , ’ said my mother . |
| 26 | " Nobody could speak it worse ! " |
| 27 | She would behave like someone who was n't being unfaithful , and nobody could accuse her of behaving like that . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody could mistake his calls , though , because he likes to take-off telephones and wolfwhistles a lot . ’ |
| 29 | Orders came to the guardroom to stand to ; priority telegrams recalled those on leave ; station defences were considerably strengthened ; living-out people were hastily brought back , and nobody could leave the camp . |
| 30 | 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 . |