Example sentences of "[verb] nowhere " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks nowhere near as old as Rebecca and she 's a month older . |
| 2 | He spent almost 10 years looking for a Scottish hotel near a large population centre , but found nowhere suitable . |
| 3 | Most of the album itself heads nowhere of the sort . |
| 4 | Hatcher , the most recent writer to survey the problem , suggests that it had come nowhere near it ( 75 , p.69 ) . |
| 5 | It was the in-between of that sludge-grey spring that stopped and started , flowers bursting out then drenched with sleet , blighted by snow ; skies grey and thundery , rain mean and seeping , wind a slinking greasy cur that has paddled through filthy city ponds and has nowhere to go . |
| 6 | The one point on which Mr Golyadkin and Double were agreed was that there is nobody like God , but it follows pat and false that if a man has nowhere to go God will look after him . |
| 7 | He has nowhere to run to , nowhere , absolutely nowhere , to go . |
| 8 | Whereas Mr Golyadkin , incidentally mad , swaddled in a dream of silk ladders and Spanish serenades , aims for Schiller 's happy-everafter hut on the shore , Stepan understands he has nowhere to go : ‘ to order post-horses one must at least know where one is going . |
| 9 | ‘ That poor man has nowhere to go , ’ she said . |
| 10 | from light which has nowhere to go , |
| 11 | White water canoeing is a new sport compared to fishing and ‘ landowning ’ and is trying to expand but has nowhere to go . |
| 12 | While that movement has nowhere been wholly completed and has gone less far in some countries than in others , there is no western nation where its effects can not be seen . |
| 13 | Here the value of privacy may act against the interests of family members ; neighbours may consider that it is not their business to interfere and the beaten wife-at least before the growth of women 's self-help centres — may find that she has nowhere to go ( Pizzey , 1974 ) . |
| 14 | It was now clear that this was because an atom in its ground state has nowhere else to go , unless it can be given the rather large amount of energy necessary to lift it to an excited state with n greater than I. |
| 15 | At the same time , his specific treatment of the social situation of popular music , by proceeding , in his usual way , ‘ through the extremes ’ , does have the negative virtue of exaggerating real trends ; the tendential strategy of the music industry in the period of ‘ mass culture ’ has nowhere been more incisively presented . |
| 16 | Because English law has nowhere declared the principle as a fundamental one , rather than a mere residual one ( as in Woolmington ) , legislators have felt free to heap burdens on defendants , the Public Order Act 1986 being a prime example in recent times ( see [ 1987 ] Crim.L.R. 153 ) . |
| 17 | GUIL gets up but has nowhere to go . |
| 18 | ‘ When my client has nowhere to … and other people are … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She says she has nowhere else to go . |
| 20 | Yes , she has nowhere to go , she was like a damp sponge . |
| 21 | He is about sixty and they should have retired him years ago , but he has nowhere else to go . |
| 22 | The rumple-headed lion has nowhere to go |
| 23 | The need to transcend religion has nowhere been more clearly expressed than within Sikhism . |
| 24 | It 's her home , and she has nowhere else to live . |
| 25 | Not even defeat by an American team whose followers barely understand the rules will persuade him that he has nowhere left to go but out of the national manager 's chair . |
| 26 | Thousands of objects have been put into storage at three locations dotted around the borough because the council has nowhere to display them . |
| 27 | The fungi , in both cases , grow nowhere else than in the nests of ants or termites , respectively . |
| 28 | I can indeed mean the thought that occurred there , rather than mean the thought that occurred nowhere on an occasion when my location was Venice . |
| 29 | Of nervous horses , but linger nowhere . |
| 30 | The drawback to spending time in Câmara de Lobos is the hordes of beggar children who appear nowhere else on the island but are a real nuisance here . |