Example sentences of "have nowhere [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents ' Friend are here for parents , relations and close friends of gay , lesbian and bisexual people and also for those people themselves if they have nowhere to turn — or know of nowhere . |
| 2 | But they still do get nurses due for retirement who have nowhere to go apart from a special retirement home for others in the same profession . |
| 3 | They 're discredited and have nowhere to go , ’ Paula protested . |
| 4 | The fish have eaten their bodies ; they have nowhere to go for burial . |
| 5 | When the people who buy and sell shares in the City lose their jobs , they have nowhere to go , either , because they have no skills . |
| 6 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 7 | A group of new-age travellers whose camp site was raided by police yesterday say they have nowhere to move on to . |
| 8 | Of the Nez Perce , Parker observed : ‘ I have nowhere witnessed so much subordination , peace and friendship as among the Indians in the Oregon Territory . |
| 9 | But police say when drivers have nowhere to stop and rest , it 's a recipe for disaster . |
| 10 | Also , as in-patient beds are much more plentiful than supported housing and hostels , they are often used as substitute accommodation because people have nowhere to live after hospital treatment has ended . |
| 11 | Number one ; you have nowhere to live . |
| 12 | Your first problem as I recall from my masterly analysis , is that you have nowhere to live except a hotel that 's rapidly running out of vases . |
| 13 | They 've set up camp , saying the impounded vehicles were their homes and they now have nowhere to live . |
| 14 | Often they 've fallen out with family and have nowhere to live . |
| 15 | Since 1988 the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 16 | Since 1988 , the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 17 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 18 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 19 | ‘ Children who have to steal to eat ; who have been abandoned by their parents , if they ever knew them ; children who huddle in a doorway at night , because they have nowhere to sleep . ’ |
| 20 | There is a mass lobby of Parliament on December 1 , to try to bring home to those in power what is happening to the families who are forced to live in bed and breakfasts , and those who literally have nowhere to lay their heads . |
| 21 | I have nowhere to hide my head but under this roof . |
| 22 | We have nowhere to hide . |
| 23 | Now so much more time has been released for us to be the church but at the same time we have nowhere to hide and nothing to blame ! |
| 24 | Seats and tables should be treated with preservative before the bad weather sets in , especially if you have nowhere to store them under cover . |
| 25 | Students have nowhere warm to complete their assignments and other work . |
| 26 | I have cycled in several countries of Europe and have nowhere found conditions as bad as they are here . |
| 27 | However , because island animals have evolved in the absence of predators , because their populations are often fairly small to begin with , and because they have nowhere to run to , they tend to be extremely vulnerable when predators are finally introduced and island creatures are particularly prone to extinction . |
| 28 | The kids on the estate have nowhere to play . |