Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iii ) provided accommodation to the addict in your life because he or she had nowhere else to go . |
| 2 | Sleep has left me and I feel that I have not long to live . |
| 3 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 4 | ‘ That nice lady sat there explaining to me that she had n't long to live . |
| 5 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 6 | As you near the end of your first video safari , the low-battery warning in your viewfinder may begin to flash , indicating that you have not long to go before switch-off for the day . |
| 7 | ‘ They say that they have nowhere else to go , but I know that facing the world on their own would be even more frightening . ’ |
| 8 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 9 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 10 | Why did Doctor Lanyon think that he had not long to live ? |
| 11 | Gandhi 's understanding of Truth and the essential unity of all that exists means that he has not only to realize his highest Self or Ātman but also recognize his oneness with all his fellow men and with all sub-human forms of life . |
| 12 | If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house . |
| 13 | Then , fiercely , ‘ But if I had anywhere else to go , I would . ’ |
| 14 | Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some . |
| 15 | ‘ Such a shame about the weather , and you have n't long to enjoy our Mediterranean climes , have you , my dear ? ’ |
| 16 | It 's her home , and she has nowhere else to live . |
| 17 | " If you have somewhere else to go , you will go . " |
| 18 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 19 | Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it . |
| 20 | Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go . |
| 21 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
| 22 | ‘ But I 've nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 23 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 24 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 25 | ‘ I would be glad to leave it , but I have nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 26 | By deprivation I mean that the parents or school recognized the child 's achievements , but only grudgingly , for example , ‘ You have done quite well ’ or ‘ You 've passed this exam , but you have still more to pass ’ . |
| 27 | It will not be very comfortable for you there , but we have nowhere else to put you . |
| 28 | He is about sixty and they should have retired him years ago , but he has nowhere else to go . |
| 29 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 30 | American blacks were always assimilationists because they had nowhere else to go . |