Example sentences of "were n't any [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to be nearer home and there were n't any vacancies in the local hospitals at that particular time . |
| 2 | Well , this place looked okay to me , the only hitch being that there were n't any women in it They were all in the butch bars and the diesel discos . |
| 3 | There were n't any plates of half-eaten meals or cups of cold coffee . |
| 4 | I had no sustained involvement in any kind of political activity — mainly , I think , because there were n't any models of political organization that I could identify with . |
| 5 | But if there were n't any money for 'em . |
| 6 | but I , there were n't any accounts of like actually communists bribing |
| 7 | There were n't any papers among it . |
| 8 | And not-only was there no dog worrying Farmer Olinton 's sheep ; there were n't any sheep in sight , either ! |
| 9 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 10 | They were n't any good to shovel coals no , is to give it away again . |
| 11 | People said it was because they were n't any good at finding their way . |
| 12 | Keeley said girls were unreasonable because they were n't any good at sport — they had n't learnt any rules . |
| 13 | I goes well all the , all the questions were matters science and she were n't any good at that |
| 14 | They were n't any good by themselves er , these things because I the other thing which you had to get from somewhere was output rates . |
| 15 | You know , and she would constantly say that , and before six months , there were n't any interpretations at all . |
| 16 | They were n't any use to Moscow dead . |
| 17 | At least there were n't any children to be hurt by what happened . ’ |
| 18 | There were n't any rubies of large size in that period . |
| 19 | It took me a week to get myself together again , and by the time you got back from leave I 'd left Johannesburg because there were n't any jobs for me there . |