Example sentences of "anywhere but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrick 's argument , that of the man who earns his living playing the game , would make sense anywhere but in the Ridings : without the addition of a West Indian fast bowler and the option of adding two more experienced outside players , says Carrick , the chances of his youngish team ever winning trophies and thus making money , are severely limited . |
| 2 | Surveys of opinion invariably revealed that , while attachment to Britain remained strong , patriotic emotions still flourished , and very few people ever wished to live anywhere but in Britain , estimates of national progress and decline were progressively more gloomy . |
| 3 | Have n't I told you time in and time out never — never — to get lamb chops anywhere but from Kavanagh 's ? |
| 4 | She complained of blisters on her hale glaring days they worked away like this , too tired and stiff at night to want to go anywhere but to bed . |
| 5 | In the event , Leeds chose to play a rather strange formation in which McAllister operated at right-back and Speed was anywhere but where he is most effective , on the left flank . |
| 6 | It 's hard to fall anywhere but on your face when the snow is reaching your thigh , and you know it wo n't hurt . |
| 7 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 8 | When bream are resting they can be anywhere , and usually anywhere but where the patrol route is . |
| 9 | Never try to force it , or you will cast anywhere but where you want to . |
| 10 | That was the first time I was conscious that before the apocalypse I had never thought of visualising anywhere but in my stomach . |
| 11 | Do not place the blame anywhere but on yourself , because you alone have chosen that path . |
| 12 | The lines seem to shift and shimmer as you look at them and before long you have a powerful desire to look away , anywhere but at the painfully dazzling pattern in front of you . |
| 13 | He was looking about apprehensively ; looking anywhere but directly at them . |
| 14 | Well , Yamaha 's battery or mains powered RY10 can use its own internal speaker , or headphone output , to enable programming just about anywhere but in the shower . |
| 15 | Well , Yamaha 's battery or mains powered RY10 can use its own internal speaker , or headphone output , to enable programming just about anywhere but in the shower . |
| 16 | She sat in the chair looking down at her hands , at the floor — anywhere but at me . |
| 17 | She had never mentioned living anywhere but in Hove , until she came to London to live with Margaret . |
| 18 | She had headed for Heathrow airport , not to fly anywhere but because she could be warm and alone . |
| 19 | Now it would be unthinkable for me to stay anywhere but with the family . |
| 20 | I 'm not blaming her , it is n't her fault , locked away up there , miles from anywhere but , I ask you , Constance , what can she possibly know about the realities of life in 1945 ? |
| 21 | As I was looking through the products of many well-known ‘ British ’ firms , I was disgusted to find all were made in countries like China , South Korea and Taiwan — anywhere but Britain ! |
| 22 | Then the noise and the quaking began to abate , and the curve of Mars shrank and ran away beneath them like a wave from sand ; and then there was no more beneath and no above and nothing anywhere but indigo , and a certain ominous hissing . |
| 23 | Not that the Ariadne had any intention of going anywhere but it 's nice to have a solid reason to stay put . ’ |
| 24 | Would the impact have been the same had the final , in this particular instance , been anywhere but France ? |
| 25 | Would the impact of the Davis Cup have been the same had the final been anywhere but France ? |
| 26 | The moment teachers feel safe enough to tell the truth ( which is often anywhere but in their own staffrooms ) , they rush to unburden themselves of feelings and symptoms such as those which I have described , and are surprised and relieved that other people are feeling the same way . |
| 27 | Storerooms and chairs could be found anywhere but the cinematograph still had to be acquired as of course did the films themselves , which the writer did not even deign to mention . |
| 28 | Films could be shown anywhere but the early film theatres very rapidly shunned any initial anonymity . |
| 29 | Echo claims to circumvent the problem of trespassing on Apple 's jealously guarded ToolBox by not needing it anywhere but on the target machine , which in this case Apple will provide . |
| 30 | For a girl used to the noise and chaos of an all girls ' apartment , Buckingham Palace felt like anywhere but home . |