| The board feel, to put it mildly, that they have been nobbled. |
| We may sometimes unwittingly be nobbled by anti-war campaigners. |
| But then, when the official part was over, I was nobbled by a man in the English Department. |
| We found out later that the horse had been nobbled, which explained its poor performance. |
| I was in the middle of ordering a very expensive round of gins and tonics when I was nobbled by one of the wedding guests at the bar. |
| The horse Crock ford backed with much of his fortune was nobbled and it was said he died of a broken heart. |
