(1) Needing to win by two clear goals in the return leg, Ramsey picked Nobby Stiles and Norman Hunter and Peter Storey.
(2) A broadcasting natural, he started out as a teenager on Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio, where he played a character called Nobby Nolevel on the Timmy Mallett show.
(3) Nobby Stiles, Crerand’s team-mate, tells one story in his autobiography about being hit by a dart.
(4) Recently, trailblazers like Sissy Nobby and Big Dipper took the risks that made it easier for others to follow.
(5) "How can you change Nobby to Ned and yet leave Dick and Fanny?
(6) HubbleWatch Van Bommel couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter, Nobby Stiles, Andoni Goikoetxea and Claudio Gentile.
(7) Summerfield had heard Hodder would change the name of the circus boy, Nobby, in Five Go Off in a Caravan, to Ned, which struck him "as very strange".
Nobly
Definition:
(adv.) Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.
(adv.) In a noble manner; with greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done.
(adv.) Splendidly; magnificently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Foxhall quoted one contemporary description of Richard as "slight in body and weak in strength … to his last breath he held himself nobly in a defending manner".
(2) Few news organisations now even have specialist labour coverage, although Alan Jones, the Press Association’s industrial correspondent, still nobly flies the flag.
(3) With drugs, oblivious, in a basement, frozen nobly on a mountain top, screaming in a car crash, or traditionally in a bed surrounded by our family and children, croaking out our last wishes?
(4) Many people have an idealised image of doctors: they work long, gruelling hours, nobly accept thanks when another life is saved, and sacrifice their own lives for the sake of other people.
(5) He concluded that there were two possible outcomes – that they would protest, and the media would label them "extremists", or that they would act "nobly" and be seen as a community united.
(6) The junior party fought nobly in 2011 to keep benefits at least tied to inflation: this bill undoes all their work.
(7) You did nobly and bravely and beautifully and I am very oh so sorry, very sorry, that it must have been much hell for you.” However, on the wish of happily remarried Olivier, the pair barely saw each other again.
(8) But don't take it from me, take it from Charlotte Brontë – who said she intensely disliked Esther for being so consistently "the cheerful woman and nobly forgetful of self".
(9) Miss Jacobs met the storm nobly, but was fairly outplayed, and Miss Round led 5-3 after some great play and a half-volley which drew special applause from the King.
(10) We stood up nobly for what a lot of the country asked for.” Mas said they would not be cowed, adding: “We did what we had to do.
(11) First, nobly casting aside obsequious talk of titles following his recent appointment as president of the Queen's Bench Division, Leveson willingly confirmed that he was his old self: "I was always Brian Leveson."
(12) A movement disconnected from our fellow citizens, detached from modernity and destructive of the national unity, which, in our party's birth, Republicans once so nobly defended.
(13) Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary, can speak directly, and he now lambasts the “green blob”, against which he nobly fought and lost .
(14) He said they lived meaningful lives, and they died nobly.
(15) Abbott declared nobly, yet in somewhat Putinesque fashion, that Russia would be best served keeping its “hands off the Ukraine” (on the basis that most people in the world thought so).
(16) At this point, if readers are familiar with the standard texts of social democracy, most likely you are bracing yourself for a long list of interventionist policies – each well-intentioned, each nobly designed, each trying to mould society in the image of a leftist template.
(17) This was even true during the actual occupation, with film-makers like Sacha Guitry, Claude Autant-Lara and Jean Cocteau making dubious compromises in order to function as artists, while some of France's great postwar film-makers – André Cayatte and Henri-Georges Clouzot, to name just two – first worked, nobly or ignobly, for Continental, the Nazi-supervised French production outfit.
(18) If science in time confirms her conviction, Thompson wants to see the king nobly buried in the cathedral, just 100 yards away.
(19) Colombia’s crestfallen James Rodríguez sobbed like a baby, but took defeat nobly: “Men can also cry but I can return to my country happy,” he said.