Example sentences of "there was n't [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Before I joined the party 46 years ago , there was n't even a paved road from Lublin to Warsaw . ’ |
2 | There was n't even a 3A. 3D was unique and without context . |
3 | There was n't even a bed for me ; I slept on the sofa in the front room . |
4 | There was n't even a need for an ambulance . |
5 | There was n't even a careless whisper from George . |
6 | There was n't even a mantle , it as a wall bracket that came out of the wall with a little tiny gas jet that fanned out sot of thing and that was your illumination for the the bedroom . |
7 | There was n't even a secondary school . ) |
8 | And there was n't even a sniff of the now legendary trail of corpses that I 'm known and loved for . |
9 | There was n't even a hint of the belly wobbler or the throaty guffaw . |
10 | There was n't even a pub any longer and half the cottages were empty , only the old folk left . |
11 | In the darkness it was hard to see but it looked as if there was n't even a railing . |
12 | And the next day I went off and there was n't even a snail |
13 | Before the eighteenth century , there was n't perhaps a National Anthem , there was n't such much of a er , national feeling , and so there was very little need to have a National Anthem . |
14 | There was n't actually a great sense of option or choice . |
15 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
16 | So I did — my mother had that drawing for many years — and then Mr Moore rang my mother and said that it was so nice having me in his class because I was so interested and keen , but there was n't really a lot of point , and would n't it be better if I played the piano ? |
17 | there was n't really There was n't really a great deal of er sort of stuff here but it was more about sort of language and shifts so I had to like shift through it and find the bits |
18 | When they found her there was n't hardly a mark on her . |