Example sentences of "but there be [indef pn] there " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She would like to make a go of it but there is nothing there — it is so sad . ’
2 The ghost comes , but there is nobody there . ’
3 He talks to her , but there is nobody there !
4 Er , I can see on the top there but there 's lots there and there .
5 But there was nothing there .
6 He went out , but there was nothing there , just the rest of the dogs on their chains .
7 Her bowels opened like a tulip , but there was nothing there to come out .
8 Her head throbbed like a burst boil , but there was nothing there
9 But there was nothing there .
10 I tried to fight the creature , but there was nothing there .
11 But there was nothing there to soften the agony of her decision .
12 She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms .
13 But there was something there — was n't there ? ’
14 But there was something there .
15 ‘ We looked into Christine Daaé 's dressing-room , but … but there was nobody there ! ’
16 This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over .
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