Example sentences of "there [unc] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stretched and showered , screamed along with a flashback of Jamie at The Pink Flamingo and There ai n't nothin' like a dame ! |
| 2 | There ai n't no chairs or carpet or nothing , so if I go and see him I have to sit on the floor . |
| 3 | To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow . |
| 4 | It 's real quiet in the morning — there ai n't hardly anyone moving about the house . |
| 5 | Normally I 'd get up and make me and Marie a cup of coffee , but there ai n't no point now , so I stay in bed . |
| 6 | There ai n't many people about — I suppose cos it 's too cold . |
| 7 | There ai n't many people in there — I suppose cos it 's too early for people to have their tea . |
| 8 | I go down this side street where there ai n't so many big shops . |
| 9 | There ai n't no music playing or nothing like there usually is , just the sound of people talking and the clunking of the fruit machine . |
| 10 | I reckon they 're friends cos they do n't really look like each other and there ai n't no grown up with them , like they 're a family out with their mum and dad . |
| 11 | It 's real quiet after they 've gone , and there ai n't many people around . |
| 12 | There 's a train in , but there ai n't nobody on it , and all the lights are off . |
| 13 | There 's a gap in the wall , and it goes right onto the platform — there ai n't no fence or nothing stopping me getting out . |
| 14 | There ai n't many people about — I suppose cos there ai n't no more trains . |
| 15 | There ai n't many people about — I suppose cos there ai n't no more trains . |
| 16 | There ai n't no shops or nothing round here . |
| 17 | There ai n't a proper pavement here — it ai n't concrete like , but just earth . |
| 18 | There ai n't no clouds in the sky — just one or two wispy ones right above my head , but it 's still blummin cold . |
| 19 | There ai n't so many people about , and them that are look like they 're real busy — you know , just hurrying along as though they 're in a rush to get home . |
| 20 | I do n't really like it round here — it 's dirty and there ai n't hardly any shops . |
| 21 | As they neared the little town the guard went through the train saying : ‘ Move to the front — you 've got ta look quick for the platform there , ‘ cos there ai n't much of it ! |
| 22 | See , where we live up London , there ai n't no grass or garden places you could do this . ’ |
| 23 | There ai n't nothing |
| 24 | There ai n't nothin' I 've not seen before under there . ’ |
| 25 | There ai n't enough jobs . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There ai n't no trains out , around that time ; and a gent like him would hardly hang about in a station buffet ! |
| 27 | AN AUDIENCE WITH DAME EDNA : Bill Williamson discovers that there ai n't nothing like this Dame |
| 28 | patronized by Mr Chester as ‘ very fine in his way ’ , BR 23 ; considered a ‘ terrible fellow ’ by Dora , DC 48 ; referred to as ‘ the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethan Era ’ by Mr Micawber , DC 52 ; Mrs Wititterly inspired by a visit to his birthplace , NN 27 ; dreamed of by Mrs Nickleby ( ‘ … a black gentleman at full-length , in plaster-of-Paris , with a lay-down collar tied with two tassels , leaning against a post and thinking ’ ) , NN 27 ; his borrowings of plots defended by Nicholas Nickleby , NN 48 ; criticized by a Viscount ( ‘ There 's a lot of feet in Shakespeare 's verse , but there ai n't legs worth mentioning in Shakespeare 's plays ’ ) , MC 28 ; if played entirely by wooden legs ‘ would n't draw a sixpence ’ , OCS 19 ; referred to as ‘ Swan of Avon ’ , ‘ Bard of Avon ’ , MED 9 ; SB 53 . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you have to make a quid somehow and there ai n't much money in firewood . ’ |
| 30 | There ai n't no sanity clause ! ’ ) , but the humour of the occasion is dampened by the fact that this maelstrom of accusal and refutation , doing nothing to enhance the good name of psychology in general or the British Psychological society in particular , involves the principle of confidentiality of psychological tests coupled with the issue of a man sent to prison for a crime that — perhaps — he did not commit . |