adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
anything/anyone/anywhere in particular
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Was there anything in particular that you wanted to talk about?
miles from anywhere (= a long way from the nearest town )
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They lived in a little cottage miles from anywhere .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
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Smarter people know that nobody would believe any yarn that came anywhere near the truth.
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But for Bellerophon riding pegasus there was no need to come anywhere near the flaming monster.
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Nothing living, it seemed, would come anywhere close to this long abandoned dwelling.
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And who, today, comes anywhere near filling that role?
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You have to be both token woman and superwoman to come anywhere near a shortlist that disenfranchises most of the male population.
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An announcement to add two teams by 1998 could come anywhere between the middle of next month and the postseason.
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Active cases must be well isolated so that disease free horses can not come anywhere near infected cases.
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But it seemed as if Bert's job, possibly conveniently, prevented him from coming anywhere near Four Winds for the time being.
find
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Nobility could be found anywhere , and Charity allowed herself to feel faintly optimistic about her future as a cocktail waitress.
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Everything, it seemed, was not to be found anywhere .
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Couldn't find anywhere to get off the road.
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The thing that drove him into seclusion was his failure to find anywhere a return of the warmth that flowed from him.
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It is very difficult to find anywhere else in the world.
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And the result is endlessly fascinating for dippers, with the kind of information included you simply can't find anywhere else.
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Is this what Margaret meant by claiming that what can be found anywhere can probably be found every-where?
get
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They were left with the feeling of not getting anywhere .
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I found out I could sit and study something for ever and never get anywhere .
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Jefferies noted that REITs currently are getting anywhere from 8. 5 to 11 percent returns on the funds it invests.
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In the unchanging landscape we drove but we didn't get anywhere .
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It is no use going into a tantrum, Joe, because you are not going to get anywhere ..
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We're not getting anywhere like this.
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If you don't face anything, you don't get anywhere .
go
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Man Friday For two years I never went anywhere without my gun.
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Weapons of all types were everywhere, and no soldier went anywhere without a lethal instrument within close reach.
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That makes me feel bad because I don't want to go anywhere else.
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None has gone anywhere , though investigators sometimes found merit to the charges.
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Or the research could go anywhere and lead to the unexpected!
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But no one is going anywhere until the cattle move.
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Sunderland were lucky, the ball could have gone anywhere .
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C., its members carry beepers and can be ready to go anywhere in the world within hours.
happen
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Their not caring what happens anywhere else in the world.
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If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere .
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And Bosnias can happen anywhere , at any time.
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They could happen anywhere and very well might.
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Most of the time you have no idea what's happening anywhere else.
lead
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On Friday night, therefore, Miss Tilley's was the only information which seemed to lead anywhere .
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It's not much and it doesn't lead anywhere , so don't get excited.
live
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Looking back I think she could hardly have lived anywhere more suited to the containment of her difficulty.
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Dominic has always said that he could live anywhere , and he has proved this more than once.
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Wildlife lost for ever Many rainforest species can not live anywhere else.
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She was born here and has never wanted to live anywhere else.
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I've never lived anywhere more friendly, homely or relaxing.
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If you could live anywhere , where would that be?
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I've never lived anywhere else.
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But locals say they wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
work
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The mechanism which Roberts proposes might be expected to work anywhere that spruce is grown.
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The Optimistic one is that if decentralization partially works in Phoenix, it can work anywhere .
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They wouldn't work anywhere else.
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Border Patrol spokeswoman Andrea Privette says the federal agents can work anywhere in public domain.
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No known clockmaker, other than self-taught Harrison himself, lived or worked anywhere around north Lincolnshire in the early eighteenth century.
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Pampered technical and content staffers may resist working anywhere other than near their favorite coffee shops or blues clubs.
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Unfortunately, quasi-socialistic import substitution did not work anywhere it was tried.
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The ability to work anywhere means that you work everywhere.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get (sb) somewhere/anywhere/nowhere
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Annie A very nice symbolic action, but on its own it gets us exactly nowhere.
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Anxiety will get you nowhere, wrote Harsnet.
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Continual moaning and criticism of others gets you nowhere.
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Everyone has got to start somewhere.
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It doesn't get you anywhere.
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Looks like he hated Albert more than anything-but he never would let him get a job anywhere else.
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New York gave you freedom, indulged tastes and vices that could get you hanged somewhere else, but at a price.
lead nowhere/not lead anywhere
nowhere near/not anywhere near
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Did you go anywhere exciting on vacation this year?
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Do they need anywhere to stay for the night?
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I'm so happy here. I couldn't possibly imagine living anywhere else.
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I can't find my keys anywhere .
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I don't want that man anywhere near my house.
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Sit anywhere - there are plenty of seats.
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Tropical fruit used to be hard to find, but now you can buy it anywhere .
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You can buy them anywhere , and they're very cheap.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I know of no primitive people anywhere that either rejects and despises conflict or represents warfare as an absolute evil.
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Nor have I read about it anywhere .
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Sharpe, glad that he was not having to ride anywhere , began tugging at his tight boots.
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She couldn't find Ana anywhere either.
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She never married or went anywhere even on her days off.
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There is no sign of a shop or café open anywhere .
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We were not able to see anywhere evidence of a master mind during the conflict which followed.