Example sentences of "there be [adv] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I ca n't if you 're holding that handle there there 's nowhere for me to walk . |
| 2 | There 's nowhere for him to go for a bit of company — he wo n't go to the day hospital because he thinks they 'll make him take drugs . |
| 3 | But in captivity there 's nowhere for them to run , so it 's up to us to see they do n't hurt each other badly . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There 's nowhere for it to curve to . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Very useful things , ladders , especially when you 're on the top of one — there 's nowhere for you to run , which I get the feeling you are contemplating , and I think even you are n't callous enough to push me off backwards . ’ |
| 6 | It 's a futile gesture , of course , because there 's nowhere for you to go . ’ |
| 7 | " But there 's nowhere for us to go , is there , Andrew ? " |
| 8 | ‘ We want to make the whole pie bigger so there 's more for us , more for them , more for everybody . ’ |
| 9 | They know if an elderly relative needs long-term nursing care there is nowhere for them in the NHS any more . ’ |
| 10 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 11 | Provided he is not forced to drop them it may be that Gorbachev , ironically , could be the first world leader to actually reduce a country 's intelligence agencies on the grounds that there is less for them to do . |
| 12 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 13 | They had not been asked to sit down and indeed there was nowhere for them to do so . |
| 14 | There was nowhere for him to put his feet . |
| 15 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 16 | There was nowhere for us to put our belongings . |
| 17 | It would not go anywhere ; there was nowhere for it to go . |
| 18 | In a secondary sort of way she knew that , beyond the opportunity to please and placate Maman , there was more for her to give if she should eat the horrible spinach . |