Example sentences of "nowhere to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the Labour Party is still nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | Gazzer was nowhere to be seen . |
| 5 | Buyers were nowhere to be seen . |
| 6 | Her husband was nowhere to be seen . |
| 7 | Woolridge was nowhere to be seen . |
| 8 | The detective was nowhere to be seen . |
| 9 | These were nowhere to be found . |
| 10 | When war did come on Bank Holiday Saturday — 4th August — young Kenny was nowhere to be seen , but John was in his same position , shouting loudly to the crowd as usual . |
| 11 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 12 | And there 's nowhere to be alone , except my bedroom , and if I try to write there my fingers die with the cold . |
| 13 | Mudskippers nowhere to be seen , but will probably come back through the catfish flap later . |
| 14 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 15 | Euclid was nowhere to be seen . |
| 16 | Traditional Irish combativeness was nowhere to be seen as they allowed Robert Jones and his back row to steer Wales out of the doldrums . |
| 17 | I turned to look back once but Mum was nowhere to be seen . |
| 18 | If help is nowhere to be found , and you ca n't outrun whoever is chasing you , then substitute cunning for speed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The cyclist was nowhere to be seen . |
| 21 | ‘ The structure and composition of the league are thoroughly bad ’ , wrote Hobson : ‘ The breath of democracy is nowhere to be found . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The passenger was nowhere to be seen . |
| 24 | Govan car sheds were reputedly haunted by a figure which was seen from time to time in a driving compartment of a car but on investigation the figure had disappeared and was nowhere to be found ; the cab was empty yet strangely cold ! |
| 25 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The mysterious Twins were nowhere to be seen . |
| 29 | Discs is nowhere to be found . |
| 30 | 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 . |