Example sentences of "there be [num] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this factory there are 1100 of us and yet we only have one Asian shop steward . |
| 2 | I keep thinking there are two of me ! |
| 3 | The Fenny Bentley figures , for there are two of them , also wear winding-sheets , but here they are tucked under the feet , secured by linen bands around the calves , and finished off with a neat bow ; but the head end displays the standard knot . |
| 4 | That is rather a ponderous way of saying that no one in his right mind doubts the truth of my assertion about the states in which Bill will be found , because there are two of them and he must be in one or the other . |
| 5 | There are two of them . |
| 6 | There are two of them . |
| 7 | to give you an example there are two of them . |
| 8 | There are two of us and two more behind you . |
| 9 | There are two of us . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Wait until brother Michael sees that there are two of us ! ’ he cried . |
| 11 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 12 | There are two of us walking away from the graveyard . |
| 13 | ‘ There are two of us , and hundreds of thousands of them , ’ Blake said . |
| 14 | If there are two of you lifting/lowering someone , make sure that you work together and that one of you gives the command ‘ 1-2-3 lift ’ , for example . |
| 15 | If there are two of you holidaying together you can cheer each other up and laugh about life 's adversities and the fact that you are holidaying in a flea pit . |
| 16 | Even so , if there are two of you working together an ordinary garden spade or even a shovel can be used by one man to fill in some holes while the other man uses the graft or long spade on a new excavation . |
| 17 | I hope it is n't true there are two of you ! |
| 18 | If there are two of you buying , you can borrow 2.5 times your combined income . |
| 19 | Well , it 's not dead , but like , when there are two of you on , you 're not exactly taxed . |
| 20 | Okay now there are six of us how many twelfths will we get there are twelve of them . |
| 21 | Now most of our months are thirty days or thirty one days and there are twelve of them . |
| 22 | ‘ There are twelve of us . ’ |
| 23 | He even knows there are fifteen of them . ’ |
| 24 | We know where the problems are , we can actually solve those problems , and I think that 's where parish council actually far closer in touch with the people , because we 're on the ground and there are fifteen of us |
| 25 | ‘ There are hundreds of them hooting all night , ’ protested Betty . |
| 26 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 27 | ‘ There are fifty-eight of them , dating from 1922 … |
| 28 | If there are 38 of them on the line , 38 go together for ten minutes and then , of course , the line stops . |
| 29 | I 've changed the mental image of the cancer from the multi-headed dragon to football-sized balloons full of water — unfortunately there are millions of them , all over , some clustered into piles beneath the lumps on my body . |
| 30 | Oh well there are four of them there so why not give them all and I 'll cut this pizza into |