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Example sentences for "nobody could"

  • Nobody could expect us to know all those languages.

  • Nobody could really be as smart as you Indians think you are and live to tell the story.

  • Well, nobody could have a stronger motive than that, after all," said Jimmy.

  • Nobody could do it, but that good fellow" (pointing to Captain Wentworth.

  • I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.

  • Nobody could be more so," he replied; "I was nearly an hour with her, she was very much surprised and ravished.

  • Nobody could be more eager or more earnest than the Cardinal, for he gave me advice how to arrive at my aim, and pressed me to look out for everything which could aid me; assuring me that his letters, and those of M.

  • As she was constantly with the King nobody could come to her.

  • Why, of course, nobody could be with Elsie Venner and not observe it.

  • Nobody could be astir, she told herself, at such a dark hour.

  • Nobody could afford to be idle at the Sitz farm.

  • Nobody could give an answer, for every one of us had been thinking merely of himself and of nobody else.

  • Our search in the trench was likewise unsuccessful; nobody could give us the slightest information though sappers were well known among the infantry, because we had to work at all the points of the front.

  • Wherever we asked, nobody could give us any information.

  • Nobody could agree to it, nobody could endure it.

  • This was not a thing that she would endure; nobody could endure it and keep sanity.

  • It's still raining, it's pitch dark, nobody could see a parcel dropped over the cliffs, and you might lose your own life in the process.

  • Nobody could be so clever as all that, Pen!

  • Nobody could be more fully aware of this.

  • Nobody could see it to ask what she was smiling at.

  • Nobody could be homesick with such a jolly good fellow as you around, Kate.

  • Nobody could think of her beside beautiful, rose-faced Avery.

  • Nobody could be discontented who was Randall Burnley's wife.

  • Nobody could supply my place; all the seats were taken; and the Prince was expected.

  • That she had descended to a sphere unworthy of her and new to her, nobody could doubt.

  • Nobody could tell me whether it was the original work of an Italian writer, or whether it had been stolen (and probably disfigured) from the French.

  • If the Convention was suffered once more to hear the dreaded voice of Robespierre, nobody could be sure that he would not recover his ascendency.

  • The Commune of Paris, the Jacobin Club, the revolutionary tribunal were of their party; and how many of the armed multitude, nobody could tell.

  • Nobody could, without explainin' an' I cayn't explain.

  • Nobody could be offended with happy Dorothy that day, and he was soon deep in exploration of his new charge; his pride in his ability to handle such a perfect bit of machinery increasing every moment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after his; cannot love; colour from; construction materials; dreadful thing; employs about; first given; hand figure; having been the first; light battery; little snow; member constituencies; nobody could; nobody else; nobody knew; nobody knows; nobody would; often called; phonetic decay; poor blind; she were; shot wound; small arches; small spot; thought you; wireless telegraphy