Example sentences of "there be the odd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most , most criminals do n't want to get caught but there are the odd exceptions who are a bit idiotic er but we erm they 're very rare and usually high on drugs on something like that , but we 're just your ordinary sort of down and out type criminal who wants to break in some way . |
| 2 | There are the odd ones when Bill sells them I hide them somewhere and he 'll say ’ It 's got to go , it 's got to go ! |
| 3 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 4 | There were the odd women inspectors . |
| 5 | There were the odd murmurings , the sounds echoing throughout the large building , but they were quickly quelled by warders anxious to maintain silence . |
| 6 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 7 | There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away . |
| 8 | There 's the odd few that do n't get on with the teachers . |
| 9 | There 's the odd junkie or alcoholic but they 're the exception rather than the rule . ’ |
| 10 | And also in there there 's like , there 's there 's the odd card saying swap your entire hand with somebody to the left or the right of you , or swap a card with the person on the left or the right of you , and that 's quite funny for a laugh as well . |
| 11 | On one side there is the odd figure of Morrissey with his doleful voice and intriguing lyrics that offer an orgy of catharsis and sing-a-long confession for those plagued with inadequacies , mixed with horror and fascination with the violence . |
| 12 | All the new stuff is pretty cool , even if there is the odd bit of useless indie thrash . |
| 13 | Well not as many , er there is the odd break in here and there but no one has had the sort of amount that I have erm |
| 14 | True enough there is the odd Porsche but surprisingly few patrons of the supermarkets carry mobile phones of filo-faxes . |
| 15 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 16 | Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them . |
| 17 | There was the odd dissenting voice from jazz modernists and pop vocalists but in the main even young rock and pop celebrities such as Cliff , Billy Fury and Helen Shapiro were cornered into making facile compliments in print along the lines of ‘ What 's The New Trend ? |
| 18 | And then there was the odd case of Janice Young , who was , if anyone ever was , the doomed and unalterable scapegoat she was not pretty , she was not clever , she was not good at games , and yet , during her fifteenth year , she managed to make herself acceptable as one of the inner ring . |
| 19 | There was the odd student sit-in and the National Union of Students was beginning to find a voice . |
| 20 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 21 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |