Example sentences of "[vb base] nowhere [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they find nowhere to live , nothing to eat and poor health and education . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've nowhere to put the gravy jugs , ’ wailed Emily . |
| 3 | ‘ Er , well , I 've nowhere to go and it 's causing me something of a problem . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've nowhere to go except Woolworth 's . ’ |
| 5 | Please come home and we 'll have the meal she 's doing and if you 've nowhere to go you 're very welcome to stay . |
| 6 | If I 've nowhere to go . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 've nowhere to go — ’ |
| 8 | We 've nowhere to go , and Garvey keeps the purse . |
| 9 | They 've nowhere to sleep you see , having left home and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ But unfortunately I 've nowhere to stay here either . ’ |
| 11 | erm it 's going to be in the Northgate Hall and erm members of the churches from the city centre are going to staff that between five and seven for those who 've nowhere to stay between those hours . |
| 12 | We 've nowhere to run to . |
| 13 | So you 're okay on that you , you 've got from thinking oh I 'm stuck on the other , I 've nowhere to start , |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They 're discredited and have nowhere to go , ’ Paula protested . |
| 17 | The fish have eaten their bodies ; they have nowhere to go for burial . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A group of new-age travellers whose camp site was raided by police yesterday say they have nowhere to move on to . |
| 21 | But police say when drivers have nowhere to stop and rest , it 's a recipe for disaster . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Number one ; you have nowhere to live . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They 've set up camp , saying the impounded vehicles were their homes and they now have nowhere to live . |
| 26 | Often they 've fallen out with family and have nowhere to live . |
| 27 | Since 1988 the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 28 | Since 1988 , the number of applications from people who say they have nowhere to live has soared from 160 to 629 . |
| 29 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 30 | 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 . |