Example sentences of "there be [not/n't] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Put a colon between the title and the subtitle , even if there is n't one in the original . |
2 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
3 | ‘ There was n't one in the car . |
4 | When I first went to work , I went and joined the union , there was n't one in the factory I was working in and so I went to the nearest er trade union office and joined . |
5 | Hard pushed , well she said she went through all the books on the Council , and there was n't one in the South |
6 | there was n't anybody at the assembly hall for the National Theatre , well |
7 | She said there was n't anything at the moment . |
8 | Er there was n't anything like the , well not to the schools that I went to , the corporal punishment that there seems to have been since . |
9 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
10 | Over the eggs and bacon , eaten with bread and butter , Dolly said , ‘ Like you told me , there was n't anything in the paper about the murder except the police are still workin' on it . |
11 | The back line made a few errors but there was n't anyone on the Southampton side able to take advantage . |