Sentence examples for took him nowhere from inspiring English sources

But promise took him nowhere.

It took him nowhere, at least in the Braves' system.

James Murphy accepted his fate while sitting in a van outside a club, in a city he can't remember, on a tour taking him nowhere.

Twenty years would take him nowhere near the average life span, and yet at that moment it yawned forward like an eternity.

And with the exception of School Ties of the same year (a prejudice-at-private-school flick in which Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-starred), films like Airhead (a rock-star spoof), The Scout (baseball schmaltz) and Glory Daze (graduation traumas) were lo-cal fluff, taking him nowhere.

Simon Cowell: Success from bad taste John Gapper | Financial Times | 10 October 2014 Cowell's cheesy taste made him a figure of fun in his early days as record producer, when his "blend of arrested development and obsessive compulsion might have taken him nowhere and it very nearly did".

That's the same Watch that took him in when he had nowhere left to go but the streets of some other bleak town lacking even the warmth of his mother and father.

CAMPAIGN DIARY l ChicagoNESTLED discreetly inside a glass skyscraper a couple of blocks from Lake Michigan, Barack Obama's presidential campaign headquarters is the nerve centre of an organisation that has taken him from virtually nowhere to national front-runner in just a few months.

Despite the evident and fervent wish of most of the population for an end to the conflict, Zuluaga's campaign – widely believed to have been masterminded and directed by Vélez – has taken him from virtually nowhere in the presidential stakes to winning 29% of the first-round vote in May, ahead of Santos on 25%.

I brought him to this chapel because there was nowhere else to take him.

As his fiancee Michelle Cound told BBC Sport: "People are saying Chris has come from nowhere but it has taken him more than 10 years to become an overnight success".