Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] there be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for now there is just you . |
| 2 | But for now there are only the empty frames on the walls of the cinema and the rich maroon emulsion they are set against . |
| 3 | At Hardington in Somerset there are only a few traces of the village , which is said to have gone by 1584 , but until recently there were very fine earthworks of a seventeenth-century garden landscape , with terraces , tree mounds , and park banks . |
| 4 | ‘ It is n't the Ritz , but at least there 's somewhere to sit , if you care to throw a cushion or two on the bench . ’ |
| 5 | They might try to look like aeroplanes but at least there were still smart waiters serving drinks to tycoons as they shuffled papers where the noughts ran off the edge of the page building a case to be argued to some Washington agency the next day . |
| 6 | But by then there was only him and me left . ’ |