Example sentences of "[verb] nowhere [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ That poor man has nowhere to go , ’ she said . |
| 5 | from light which has nowhere to go , |
| 6 | White water canoeing is a new sport compared to fishing and ‘ landowning ’ and is trying to expand but has nowhere to go . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | GUIL gets up but has nowhere to go . |
| 9 | Yes , she has nowhere to go , she was like a damp sponge . |
| 10 | The rumple-headed lion has nowhere to go |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thousands of objects have been put into storage at three locations dotted around the borough because the council has nowhere to display them . |
| 13 | He has nowhere to run to , nowhere , absolutely nowhere , to go . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | and er when I was going through the change and I 'm post menopause er and having terrible feelings , I 'd nowhere to go ! |
| 16 | He 'd nowhere to go . |
| 17 | Well you would be would n't you if you 'd nowhere to sleep on the night ? |
| 18 | There seemed nowhere to take discussions of these dilemmas except to the conferences ' lesbian workshops , where they took up almost all the time . |
| 19 | And we never walk nowhere do we ? |
| 20 | ‘ He 's got nowhere to go , has he ! |
| 21 | Then he said , ‘ It 's nothing to do with what 's right or wrong , just that she 's old and she 's got nowhere to go . ’ |
| 22 | We ai n't got nowhere to go . ’ |
| 23 | He 's got nowhere to go but forward . |
| 24 | Now obviously he 's got nowhere to go . |
| 25 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 26 | We 'd got nowhere to go at weekends , and they disappeared . |
| 27 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 28 | I went into the gardens one Sunday morning with the dog found a body in a sleeping bag and I really did n't know whether I thought it was alive or not alive so I went rather closer and I got a very defensive angry stare from a young man and I said to him I 'm not going to ask you to move , because you 've probably got nowhere to go , my real concern is are you okay . |
| 29 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 30 | Ideally I would like a free house of my own but I have got nowhere to go . |