For myself, there was no-one or nowhere to go to, and it seemed that the entire adult population were doing all that they could to beat me down, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Of course, if he gets injured, or his career goes nowhere, or he simply leaves the club as a free agent, you get nothing.
Characters take abrupt ninety-degree turns, or pop up out of nowhere, or simply disappear.
An attempt to link the array into a story or screenplay leads nowhere.
It may not impress the voters either who might argue that your head is either on the block - or frankly, nowhere near it.
The way he'd turn a line, or spin on his heels, or make something funny, or out of nowhere make me cry - I just never knew what was coming next.
The Queen will even go to Bourke, a dusty town which is a byword in Australia for the remote outback - "Back o' Bourke" means the back of beyond or middle of nowhere in Aussie-speak.
It has accepted fees from companies with over-the-counter penny stocks, made alliances that have gone nowhere or made little financial sense and engaged with businesses and individuals who have come under scrutiny by regulatory and law enforcement officials.
FORBES: As a businessman, he's been mixing with a sketchier crowd.
You will notice that in the specifications the word virtualization or VMware is mentioned nowhere.
The challenge posed to the environmentalists is to rely on science everywhere or rely on it nowhere.
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Ill people, especially if they are old or alone, have nowhere to go but to hospital emergency rooms.
At the same moment, in a sudden squall, a white shape broke out in front of him from nowhere, or from between two parked cars.
In the culture of TV, all candidates must have winning images, or they'll get nowhere fast.
The multinational digger has just confirmed it has let the trucks roam free at the Nammuldi iron ore mine, a hole in the ground located in more or less the middle of nowhere, as the nearest town, Tom Price, is 60km away.
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Though most of the city's residents left before the storm, huge efforts are now being made to rescue and evacuate those who remained behind to care for pets or ageing relatives and neighbours, or simply because they had nowhere else to go.
Not surprisingly, elements that demand a truly big screen or a windowed interface won't fly -- there's nowhere to drag-and-drop from or open a new window to.
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One problem: Nowhere do Mitt Romney or his advisers say that these deductions can't be touched.
While London's charitable ball circuit is nowhere near as lavish or ostentatious as New York's, there are other signs of British fund-raising becoming Americanised.
But while these larger deals may grab the headlines, most transactions are nowhere near this size or take place in a landscape where there are just a few clear dominant players.
Even the best upcoming broadband wireless technologies from the telcos are nowhere near the 100Mbit or better I can get from from telco to get to the Internet, nor are they as reliable as copper or fiber, and they are orders of magnitude more expensive.
Yet our trade and investment relationship is nowhere near where it could or should be.
Women can enter too, and nowhere in these ads (or on the contest website) do we see a female astronaut.
And last this writer checked, Zimbabwe is nowhere near achieving full employment or capacity utilization, yet it suffers hyperinflation just the same.
In contrast to the Premier League, there will be long periods where you are not involved and there are nowhere near as many shots or crosses coming into the box.
The state government of Washington is one organization that has come up with a technology-enhanced Webcast that truly could exist nowhere but the Internet (or, more specifically, the state's intranet).
Any negative language, slacking in front of co-workers or backbiting never reflects well and gets you nowhere.
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Housing prices are slipping across the country, but nowhere are they sliding as fast or as steeply as here in California.
The risk is, though, that the coalition spends long periods stuck in the sidings going nowhere rather than risk another disagreement or the consequences of de-coupling.
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