How To Use Nobody In A Sentence
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I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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No, Jack won't have nobody tell him what he can't ever be, even if he weren't born with a silver spoon in one end and an Harley Street hooter up the other.
Jack Scallywag
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Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb.
Diary
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He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
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She will be nobody's stooge, least of all Washington's.
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The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight.
Dispatch.com: RSS
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There is nobody to direct the workers.
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When in the following October the nobody met Katsu Kaishu, the enlightened commissioners of the shogun's navy, it might have been with intent to assassinate him.
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He found that nobody could speak English.
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Nobody, not even the young actress girlfriend of the main detective, is dressed to impress.
Tin Boxes
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Nobody lets you out of a side turning.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was so cold that nobody can make his hands naked.
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We realized with a sense of growing desperation that nobody knew we were in there.
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Nobody told you to flirt with me like a grown mature responsible adult man would do.
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The whole point is that the process is nobody 's business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although it is present in huge amounts in these plants, nobody knows what caffeine is for.
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His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.
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Love is like sea with lots of waves,I recall the sailing boat when I am old. Nobody will remember all of you like me.
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It may have been the biting cold wind that concentrated minds on my questions, but contrary to what opinion surveys are finding, almost nobody owned up to being a don't know or no-show.
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If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
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However, on a bad day chaos reigns, and nobody can predict a likely departure time.
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I contented myself with merely trying to become a migrant worker, a plan that fizzled because nobody in my family would advance me the cash necessary to go out west and meet my fellow migrants.
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Nobody can take part in the traditional European contest for possession after the tackle if his nose is more than 6in off the ground.
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Nobody questions the wisdom behind the decision to set up the commission.
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The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home.
Paricutín, The Volcano, Michoacán
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But nobody owned up to being among the 24 who had kited $1,000 a month or more.
Who Says There's No Free Lunch?
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There was nobody behind/on the counter when I went into the bank, and I had to wait to be served.
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Nobody can even put an exact figure on the number of children who have been excluded, which is a disgrace in itself.
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We shouldn't slight anybody even if he's a nobody.
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Nobody really knows what the marks on the ancient stones signify.
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The smaller of its hands occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
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He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.
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Apparently they're up to here in woolies, but nobody ever remembers that homeless men need underpants too.
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I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN].
Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.
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Nobody ever gets shingles or quinsy, or mumps in a novel.
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It is a political and legal quagmire, so nobody will go near it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody fancied taking the stuff the next week.
Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
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The honest man was grown splenetic: disregarded by every body, he was become disregardful of himself: he hoped for a cure of his gloominess, from her cheerful vein; and seemed to think himself under obligation to one who had taken notice of him, when nobody else would.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Imagine his glum answer when asked if he'd ever made an ace: ‘Yeah, but nobody was there to see it.’
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I really, truly, don't mean to snark, but your question is your answer: nobody dates because to not do so would be "unhealthy".
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I made it known that I was a candidate and nobody thought it worthwhile to oppose me.…
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But relatively speaking, it's the opposite of propaganda - nobody is being force-fed.
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I don't have any open wound healing is slaughtered,nobody knows my heart setbacks.
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Bands do have a natural lifespan and if the whole thing had come to an end nobody would have been surprised.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody on board was and Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon thanked Brazilian and rescue operation.
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If you wink enough nobody will notice your answerless gestures, dog-gone-it!
Beat 360° 10/3/08
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Nobody, unless he's an arrogant ninny, would ever say ‘I am an intellectual.’
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Nobody else knows barring you and me.
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Finding out that nobody wants high quality hand-stitched brogues anymore, Charlie realises that a change of product is needed.
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The magazine noted that 'nobody paints a moving picture as fantastically' as this writer-director.
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Why nobody has ever written a biography of David is beyond me.
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Nobody really knows what goes on inside the inner recesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
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I don't have any open wound healing is slaughtered,nobody knows my heart setbacks.
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Nobody would be in a position to give other than a personal view on what might happen if you engaged, for example, in amalgamations of these various bodies.
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The only way to memorise a book is to say it out loud to yourself, and this I did, gabbling away as children do, my real purpose concealed because nobody ever listens to what a child has to say.
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The menu also has milkshakes and fruit ices, but nobody ever seems to order them.
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Where you usually have a nuclear family living together and nobody else, we will often have not just a nuclear family but cousins, aunts, great-aunts, uncles. The extended family lives together, tightly knit.
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Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient ...
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You can't expect him to be perfect.nobody is.
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These organisms are small and rarely noticed, much like relative nobody Preston.
The Sun
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Nobody is safe from suspicion at the moment.
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For a few seconds nobody said anything.
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Nobody has decided for definite; it's still just a giddy conversation about something that happens to other people.
Times, Sunday Times
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His message is that nobody can get a wage rise unless they accept less time with their family and friends, longer hours at work, and endless bullying from jumped-up managers.
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A while later, she came back with their drinks as well as pretzels that nobody wanted.
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Nobody was too sure what to say, so nobody said anything.
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Nothing and nobody could come between him and his devotions.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being. Osho
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Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right.
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Nobody has ever solved this problem.
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There will be champagne and smiles and nobody will read a resignation speech.
The Sun
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If there’s nobody prescribing, the stationery is standard-issue. one friend there began collecting them to someday sell them on eBay as collectibles; not sure of the market for that, but more power to her.
Matthew Yglesias » Treating the Symptoms
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All watches are synchronised to ensure all games start at the same time to ensure nobody has an unfair advantage.
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House:House of prayer? Huh. That explains the good reception. Also why nobody's ever here.
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Carlotta was a "prod"; it was only because she came at the end of the alphabet that she was left out, but thanks to Betty's fly-away fashion of running off to speak to some junior ushers, and then calling the Blunderbuss, whose mother wanted to see her a minute, nobody could find out positively who it was that had been "flunked out" of 19 --.
Betty Wales Senior
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Nobody has decided for definite; it's still just a giddy conversation about something that happens to other people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody rings up a doctor in the middle of the night for no reason.
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The invisible force in society that nobody wants to mention.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one point, the anchorperson said, ‘Up next, some other world news that nobody much cares about.’
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She pulled a joint out of her cigarette box and looked around to make sure nobody was watching.
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Because you don't say 'Ain't nobody ever gonna find a body' when you're talking about a living child," said prosecutor Connie Spence, referring to a jailhouse informant's testimony about a statement Fountain allegedly made.
Homepage CP Container
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Similarly, although nobody wants to be called a prude, one could hardly deny that being offended by non-abstinence sex education, pre-marital sex, and homosexuality is objectively anti-sex (that is to say: unmarried, non-heterosexual, and/or kinky sex).
Matthew Yglesias » Also: The Sky Is Blue
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They said it was fortunate that nobody had suffered serious food poisoning.
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Did nobody stop to ponder three obvious questions to put this claim in context?
Times, Sunday Times
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These days, nobody cared what high-grade powder he put up his nose, whom he spent the night with.
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Nobody is more free from the ostentatious correctness of the literary precisian, and nobody preserves so much purity and so much dignity of language with so little formality of demeanor.
Voltaire
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A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.
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Nobody would begrudge him a chance to perform on the international stage.
The Sun
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I'm very excited about her full-day workshop, Advanced User Research: Dirty Little Secrets, where she'll reveal oodles of tricks and techniques that nobody ever talks about.
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As a result, nobody, including the owner of the building, has the right to block walkways under an arcade by putting up vending stalls, they said.
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It seemed that nobody knew anything about the matter.
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He and an accomplice had brandished an unloaded gun, but nobody was hurt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Robin and Namor gamefully try to make speedos work, but nobody gives them creativity points.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum
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Rau Nagar two years ago with the traditional Indian mat of "panchayat," or local justice, when nobody else would address a flagrant case of wife-beating.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The atmospherics and mood seem less translucent than ever and the fact nobody can work out exactly what's happening in front of them, leaves the intriguing sense of curiosity and desire to see more.
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Nobody gets injured, but some one may be called to supper or a dental appointment and require a substitute.
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This is a question which, of course, nobody could answer, and which, in fact, the fuglemen of ‘affirmative action’ were, and still are, very unwilling to have asked in public.
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Nobody could have anticipated how drastically things would swing Bolton's way with a dream of a goal just 16 seconds into the second half.
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We have 5 yesses, two nos, and a maybe as long as nobody goes into labour that day.
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Nobody is without faults.
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Nobody seemed to be anxious to enlighten me about the events that led up to the dispute.
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Though V.F. elevated all of its elect to the same celestial plane, once apotheosized, nobody was sacred.
Vanity Fair: The Early Years, 1914-1936
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Up until that point, nobody had informed me that my contract would be fixed term and non-renewable.
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Our epizoic literature is becoming so extensive that nobody is safe from its ad infinitum progeny.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
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Everyone's linking to this article proclaiming that the hipster is dead and that nobody cares about being cool or hip anymore.
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The club agreed last year to stop discriminating and mend their ways, but gee, when nobody was looking they backslid got sued again in March.
Martha Burk: One More Black Eye for Arizona
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Nobody out there can get more from that group of players.
Times, Sunday Times
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She told them that nobody yet knew to whom the Will would ascribe them, but that if they came to her she'd happily give them away.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Cranks and charlatans abound when we are all experts in our own field, and consequently nobody is a real expert at all.
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Nobody knows precisely how many people are still living in the camp.
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Another economic factor nobody ever considers is the market that would be created by these environmental initiatives.
Is California’s Environmental Policy Worth Fighting For? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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What this did was massively penalize the Netherlands, bumping it out of the seeded teams and making it one of the sides nobody wanted to face.
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If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.
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I took the watch I found to the police station but nobody has put in a claim for it.
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Our technical programmes in the schools were virtually eliminated by the new "smorgasbord" approach to education in which every student is able to choose every subject he may possibly want to learn: a little of this, a little of that, but nobody was to be streamed into any kind of technical education.
Economic Strategy: the Myth of Provincial Impotence
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There would be no safe way to have this anywhere near the boat, although Id think you might be able to attach some (soft nonmetallic) floats to it and tow it, but nobody is going to want that thing in port.
Commercial Fisherman Lands Live Missile
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Nobody who was near the scene of the crime is above suspicion.
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Nobody was injured and it was broken up immediately.
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On the red carpet tonight, nobody is going to begrudge her a few stretchmarks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody can hear you hitting the refresh button.
Times, Sunday Times
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But nobody talked openly about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slipslop conversation of a pack of women. '
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
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There was a last-minute panic when nobody could find the tickets.
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Nobody will make me feel worthless again.
Times, Sunday Times
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They may try to nail it on the perch again but nobody will believe it is still alive.
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Because right now, it appears that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government is essentially insuring - "backstopping," as they call it - every kind of debt, because nobody is willing to invest in anything that does not have the full backing of the United States government.
CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2008
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Here in America, of course, nobody but politicians gets any summer vacation worthy of that appellation.
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Nobody knows what's going on-it's a nightmare!
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Now, I have accepted the debates that have been offered and actually Indiana has a debate commission which kind of organizes this and makes sure it's fair and nobody gets a special advantage.
CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2008
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`It's nobody's business what goes on in a consensual relationship between a man and his waterfowl.
BAD MEDICINE
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When I takes de chillen out to git de air, de minute I's roun 'de corner I's gwine to gaum dey mouths all roun' wid jam, den dey can't nobody notice dey's changed.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Neither Anne Be Davis nor HJCR played into local Detroit scenesterism - nobody would take kids from Grosse Pointe seriously, after all … except Meg White, and you see where that's gotten her.
AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
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To put it crudely, nobody really gives a toss about this any more.
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Society is creating an underclass without standards, principles or decency, but nobody seems to recognise this, let alone be doing anything about it.
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I am 74 years old and felt left alone with nobody to look after me in my hour of need.
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The fatal flaw is that their very success means nobody looks different.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a toast in Gaelic which everyone except Salter understood, and a Latin grace which took nobody else by surprise.
A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
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Monarch's shaggy breast and never "fazed" him, nobody openly doubted
Bears I Have Met—and Others
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Men like this associate only with flatterers, and are friends to nobody.
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Nobody notice that Sofie is possed and the season end.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - HBO’s Apparent New Show
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Nobody even dared support a coworker in an argument.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there is one thing nobody can find: the very first webpage.
Times, Sunday Times
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I rang the bell but nobody came to the door.
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Nobody clued us to this mystery.
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If you've ever been there, you know that nobody there would ever monkey around with a security badge.
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It's the time when the garden is full of new and constantly changing possibilities every time you step outside, where the farmer's markets are essentially throwing their produce at you and even though the kids are once again ensconced in schoolrooms nobody is quite ready for the warm, golden nights to end.
The Dinners of Summer
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Nobody can possibly suspect what he says.
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And nobody would give a monkey's whether they bred or not?
The Sun
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Nobody wants to lug around huge suitcases full of clothes.
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I'm using the word pioneered because I know of nobody who did many of these things before these ideas came into my mind.
Oral History Interview with Mabel Pollitzer, September 19, 1973. Interview G-0047-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody and trust nobody.
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Nobody mentioned the real purpose of this meeting.
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Bless these young Boston bruisers for playing with a passion born of a belief that nobody had heard of punk rock until them, and for the ability to write reckless singalong anthems in the process.
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Nobody wanted to face the three-hour flight back to Kuwait with packages undelivered — it made the flight longer and burned fuel like crazy; and to face the crew that had worked like dogs to ready the aircraft, load the bombs, and paint love notes to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar on the ordnance was a full-bore bummer.
The Kabul-ki Dance
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The first person known to have solved cubic equations algebraically was del Ferro but he told nobody of his achievement.
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But nobody will worry overmuch about discographical details.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trio Network is featuring FLOPS this month, but they don't quite specify if they mean financial or artistic failures, or just plain crummy movies that nobody liked.
View from the Northern Border
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Why has nobody publicly paid the price for gross and blatant dereliction of duty?
The Sun
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All eyes were on the speaker, and nobody noticed me slip into the hall.
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I think everybody realises that when you have development some areas obviously will be impacted on and nobody can deny that.
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But no matter how many more dot.coms go bust, nobody should infer from the fall-out that the engines of the new economy are passing, insubstantial fashions soon to fade.
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And nobody on here cares about your stupid put downs and name calling on TP threads just proves you are under 25 and plain immature!
Think Progress » Reid to unveil intel oversight legislation at YearlyKos.
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Nobody told me where to find you. It was sheer intuition.
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Nobody spoke for at least five minutes and Rachel squirmed in her chair with embarrassment.
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What nobody realised is that they were about to witness a unique piece of sporting history.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a Tolstoyan study in human fallibility in the context of global history, the like of which nobody on this side of the pond has come close to emulating.
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Prices include cook and housekeeper to ensure that nobody has to lift a finger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did nobody notice that McCain shivved Arkansas 'former governor in the back in Washington state last weekend?
Red State Dems Dismiss Hillary Spin On Losses
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Cave honors his own definition with songs that truly "resonate with the susurration of sorrow, tintinnabulation of grief" like "Straight to You", "Nobody's Baby Now", and the slayer "Into My Arms".
Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
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Nobody, but Nobody, knows Mauritius like we do!
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There's nobody here by that name.
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Nobody else wants to do it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody could overlook the fact that box office sales were down.
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There'll indeed be plenty of business failures, including some weird ones that nobody saw coming.
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The smaller of its hands occasionally slipped round on the pivot, and thus, though the minutes were told with precision, nobody could be quite certain of the hour they belonged to.
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It is an irony lost on nobody that men draped in the English flag proclaiming unmatchable patriotism are the ones who disgrace this country.
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Still, the king kept his fair head high and brazened it out, and Father and I went and stood on either side of him, and all my brothers stood behind us, and no one can deny that we are a handsome family, or at the very least tall, and the thing is done, nobody can now deny it.
The White Queen
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To "NoCLue" … …. if your comment was directed at mine, perhaps this may be true of you too, …. if you fail (along with "United Against Fear" & "Americans Fear Nobody") to cure yourselves of your seemingly terminal case of cranial rectitis.
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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Nobody in the group heard her cry out and they were not aware she had fallen until they reached a gate and looked back.
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Nobody can really begrudge us the three points.
The Sun
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But nobody seems to want to exert the effort to make the UK truly competitive or bring it back to the glory that it was.
Times, Sunday Times
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That by now nobody would bat an eyelid when their local rubbish tip is named the hot new art space.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let nobody suppose for a moment that this was a case of paralysis agitans, or St. Vitus 'Dance.
The Adventure of Living
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But nobody who regularly uses the motorway can say they haven't been warned about the dangers of driver fatigue.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke
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The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.
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Nobody likes a nosy neighbour much less a nosy family member.
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The coming and going stopped, but nobody bothered to stop talking, because the sound would be dubbed in later.
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There was nobody around, just a babbling brook and a canopy of green.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every episode seemed to be following the same formula, and nobody was an interesting enough character to draw me in week after week.
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And cleaning up his mess is a tough duty that I think nobody could instantly fix. 7 months in his admin. and we've seen so drastic changes.
Orszag: 'We've stepped back' from economic 'free fall'
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Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.
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It makes sense since nobody calls the golfer his birthname, Eldrick Woods.
Danny Groner: Tiger Woods Left "Eldrick" Behind After His First Career Win
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Nobody complained that the international capitalists were exploiting the workers.
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I just know who i am, have no idea where i'm going" ... it's an autoscopy and the fact that one doesn't own his destiny completely, and there's nobody in the world that has everything figured out ...
Studio-Central Community
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Nobody can prevent us/our getting married.
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Nobody seems interested in destroying, once and for all, the vicious circle in which this "vagary" of international fraud entraps us.
January 2006
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Is nobody bothered about noise any more?
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody goes to Denpasar, except during a taxi ride from the airport to kuta, nusa dua, seminyak, jimbaran or ubud …
Matthew Yglesias » The Year in Cities
