Example sentences of "be nowhere [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat 's on its side in the water and you 're nowhere to be seen but in fact it 's all quite straightforward , neither the boat nor you can sink and it 's simply a question of pulling the boat back upright again and carrying on sailing . |
| 2 | Buyers were nowhere to be seen . |
| 3 | These were nowhere to be found . |
| 4 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | She had come the other way to the school , and was parked by the road , now , increasingly fretful that the two boys were nowhere to be seen . |
| 6 | But it is Jonny who is the driving force , the black leather jacket may have gone , the cowboy boots were nowhere to be seen yesterday , but the earring is still in place and so is the intensity which stunned Cambridge two years ago . |
| 7 | The mysterious Twins were nowhere to be seen . |
| 8 | When he finally turned into Brunel Road and stopped to catch his breath the others were nowhere to be seen . |
| 9 | He glanced over his shoulder again , and discovered that the two men were nowhere to be seen — it had been nothing more than his imagination . |
| 10 | The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean . |
| 11 | The Sechem were nowhere to be seen , and Jehan wondered if they knew what was going on . |
| 12 | By the time he arrived , however , the pair were nowhere to be seen . |
| 13 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 14 | They were nowhere to be seen . |
| 15 | It worked , but I thought he was going to lose his mind when we found de Raimes locked in his solar and you were nowhere to be seen . |
| 16 | But the big processions of previous years were nowhere to be seen — or heard — in our town . |
| 17 | The Bagots were nowhere to be seen . |
| 18 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 19 | The songs on Lovesexy are fullbodied , throbbing , for sure , but the unnatural excitation of tissue , the swelling and the morbid flush that characterize Prince 's peaks , are nowhere to be seen . |
| 20 | November often brings the odd day of mist and when the conditions are foggy , I often ca n't see the point in a tough hill walk when the expansive views of other months are nowhere to be seen . |
| 21 | A small number of distinctive areas may be identified , but the functional sub-units that are the stuff of modem physiological psychology are nowhere to be seen . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , so far such improvements are nowhere to be seen , and we can only speculate on the reasons for their absence . |
| 23 | If help is nowhere to be found , and you ca n't outrun whoever is chasing you , then substitute cunning for speed . |
| 24 | ‘ The structure and composition of the league are thoroughly bad ’ , wrote Hobson : ‘ The breath of democracy is nowhere to be found . |
| 25 | The statement explained that war resistance was appropriate only if the Government engaged in military action unsanctioned by the League — a qualification that is nowhere to be found in Trevelyan 's resolution . |
| 26 | Discs is nowhere to be found . |
| 27 | Information on transaction-level data , readily available from IBM 's CICS ( MVS ) and ICL 's TPS Audit ( VME ) facilities , is nowhere to be found in Unix , the only hope of getting it is through RDBMS tools , and in the future from transaction processing monitors such as Tuxedo . |
| 28 | For a second , I think it could be Lucker , but he is nowhere to be seen . |
| 29 | If I then list my files ls — al the gordon file is nowhere to be seen . |
| 30 | He is nowhere to be seen on the Thorsvoe , nor at Lyness in Hoy , site of an impressive collection of artefacts tracing Scapa Flow 's history as a naval base . |