Example sentences of "nobody [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lambing time is even more important because lambs are a cash crop and nobody ever had an abundance of that . |
| 2 | Nobody ever said a person was good , like that . |
| 3 | Nobody ever points the finger at them . ’ |
| 4 | Its two most memorable passages were , first , a somewhat rose-tinted picture of industrial life in the heyday of his family company ( ‘ It was a place where nobody ever got the sack and where … a number of old gentlemen used to spend their days sitting on the handles of wheelbarrows smoking their pipes . |
| 5 | Nobody ever brought the matter up with Eve ; and as for Mossy Rooney , who had replaced some of the window frames and the guttering , it would have been pointless asking him for information . |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody ever killed the enemy by flying rings around him . |
| 7 | Dirty children played fearlessly on the doorstep , and nobody ever opened the door to drive them away . |
| 8 | I mean when I think of all the money that was poured into my education and nobody ever mentioned the kind of decisions one would have to make in the future and the problems you would have in trying to make use both of your education and have children and have the happy family life that our society encourages you to have and that we all perhaps want . |
| 9 | Nobody ever stood a chance of getting in in unless they were Labour . |
| 10 | Although Fitzgerald has struggled as coach , nobody now believes the problem is simply one of which coach to choose . |
| 11 | Nobody really understands de interest rate |
| 12 | It was formerly found on several other islands in the Seychelles , and while nobody really knows the reason for its decline , serious studies are now being undertaken in order to try and find out . |
| 13 | there 's nobody really got a nickname in here . |
| 14 | Welcome back : Coming up , the hotelier who 's had to hire French staff because nobody here wants the work . |
| 15 | at night cos there 's nobody here to have a conversation with . |
| 16 | Excuse me , Excuse me if you if you used your mouth as well as your brain you 'd be better off , the thing is this that quite honestly nobody here has the right , do you like the way that gentleman looks ? |
| 17 | He felt that Ellice had damaged his cause among the delegation as nobody there appreciated the amount of thought and consultation that had gone into his planning . |
| 18 | Nobody nearby knew the location of the well a little farther on , from which Bonnie Prince Charlie drank . |
| 19 | Nobody quite has an answer to the question ‘ why Labour for the Nineties ? ’ . |
| 20 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 21 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 22 | If anyone out there wants a crane , makes an offer to Bristol Works Department in about three years ' time — they bought it cheap ( £16,000 ) because nobody else wanted a crane that could n't be moved about easily ! |
| 23 | Cycling in you know , and of course because nobody else wanted the job , sometimes we were supposed to share it with another , and nearly everybody else , except me , would be too big you see . |
| 24 | Nobody else lifts a finger . |
| 25 | He may be right , but nobody else has a chance to provide any input into the decisions which affect everybody in F1 . ’ |
| 26 | BUT you can renew a loan by telephone as long as nobody else wants the item . |
| 27 | Everything comes down to the fact that each one of us has to look out for ourselves , because nobody else cares a damn . |
| 28 | The only snag is : ‘ Nobody asked if the families wanted to do it , or even could : nobody seriously studied the extent to which there might even be a family ’ ( Whitehorn , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | But nobody seriously proposed the convertibility of the dollar into gold . |