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Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born .
2	Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go .
3	I had nowhere else to go and now I was being carried along — that ship bound for wrecking .
4	‘ And , dear me , I had n't far to look . ’
5	I had not only to Testify as to how , where and when the Lord Jesus had entered my heart but also give the punters a detailed account of the innermost secrets of my heart .
6	If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house .
7	Then , fiercely , ‘ But if I had anywhere else to go , I would . ’
8	I had very reluctantly to leave Stratford after an idyllic weekend .
9	But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever .
10	I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined .
11	‘ That nice lady sat there explaining to me that she had n't long to live .
12	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 .
13	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 .
14	She had nowhere else to go .
15	( iii ) provided accommodation to the addict in your life because he or she had nowhere else to go .
16	I suppose it depended on whether you went for the older man , which , speaking for herself , Rosie did n't and never had done and was , anyway , leaving to stay with the Spratlings at Porto Ercole and then , perhaps , driving down to Rome to see poor old Jack Gerontius , who had n't long to go , and after that , who knew ?
17	Now , I thought that was quite inappropriate for a young man like him , who had nowhere else to go , so there are many , many multiple problems for people like this in this city , and anything we can do would be appreciated , but I really do n't know where we would stop , there are so many problems .
18	But there was periods that y your men you , you had n't enough to occupy fully occupy the men .
19	and I played football in the street with the boys cos you had nothing else to do , you had nowhere else to go in my time !
20	You had much less to do than anything else .
21	This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait .
22	They had not long to wait to discover whether Edward was in earnest or not .
23	Johnson , who should have known better , believed Boswell right in assuming such folk unhappy , ‘ for that they had not enough to keep their minds in motion ’ .
24	Fortunately the Royal Hotel was on the front , and they had not far to go .
25	Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it .
26	American blacks were always assimilationists because they had nowhere else to go .
27	They had nowhere else to go because this is closed and as they 've said you ca n't pay the mortgage on a single engine two seater aeroplane and you ca n't get rid of , to sell one of those things , there business in liquidation .
28	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 .
29	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 .
30	But on both occasions it was the next logical step — he had nowhere else to go .