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Example sentences of "nobody [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The autobiography of a nobody must have some sales appeal .
2	Is he a baby really , a stupid kid who hides your toys because he wants you to get mad and spend lots of time trying to find them because otherwise nobody 'll take any notice of him ?
3	‘ Nobody 'll search this place . ’
4	It was a whirlwind romance , all right , and nobody could talk any sense into Freda .
5	Nobody could finance increased imports of these commodities to provide competition for these producers on the domestic market .
6	Nobody could doubt that metalwork was going to get its comeuppance .
7	Nobody would want more hay that night .
8	Nobody would pretend that raising an additional twenty five million pounds is going to be easy but time and again you have risen to the challenge .
9	The latest addition to Foula 's sparse crime statistics was the sort of incident that nobody would pay much regard to elsewhere .
10	Smarter people know that nobody would believe any yarn that came anywhere near the truth .
11	Nobody would spend any money on her , beyond a splash of cheap cosmetic on the exterior .
12	Nobody can reproduce this intonation .
13	There 's a sort of audience participation because nobody can control these crowds .
14	I would imagine that nobody can do that gig without the inevitable EC comparison …
15	Nobody can have any faith in Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley who says that the NHS needs good managers to get patients ' waiting lists down .
16	The consequence has been to diminish the credibility of both ; for nobody can have any confidence that what either of them says one week will still be government policy the next .
17	Nobody can guarantee good health , or predict an accident .
18	There 's nobody can replace individual people .
19	But certainly at the moment , erm and at least until presumably the next general election , erm nobody can see much light at the end of that tunnel .