Example sentences of "a [noun] and [ex0] be [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Forced by her boyfriend , it is alleged , the girl sold sex for up to £90 a session and there was nothing staff at the Suffolk County Council home could do about it , Ipswich Crown Court was told yesterday . |
2 | She was told they had a warrant and there was nothing she could do about it . |
3 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
4 | I went into a toilet and there was none and I sat down on the toilet , looked up , they were all above the door , five of them ! |
5 | Yeah erm she put , she said Gateway 's th they 've been selling a lot and there is none in Lynn . |
6 | After multiple cycles of amplification contaminating RNA species are no longer a problem and there is plenty of material to clone , sequence , or otherwise analyse , all within a few hours and with minimal manual intervention . |
7 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |