Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you needed was your soap and your shampoo and you 'd of been alright ! |
| 2 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 3 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 4 | The Emblem of the Holy Trinity ( lo/ 320 ) belonged to the Guild of the Stonecutters and there used to be a statue of a stonecutter above the door . |
| 5 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 6 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 7 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
| 8 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 9 | now then the E E C said this should of happened so we , we got a petition up and I thought , we got , well I did n't but the lads got over two hundred signatures and they must of been er two letters went to the Corporation and everyone was talking er critical |
| 10 | So it 's , if you 're in , you 've still got to think about security and you ought to be locking your doors , if you can . |
| 11 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 12 | The mill-house , with its white-painted cast iron footbridge over the river below the weir , forms a seductive spot for photographers , painters , picnickers and what used to be called courting couples , but are now gender-opposite persons endeavouring to establish meaningful relationships by pair-bonding and role-playing . |
| 13 | w er only sailing boats and they used to be anchored here years ago , down on the beach there . |
| 14 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 15 | By my bed there 's a wall and it used to be covered in orange- flowered wallpaper . |
| 16 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 17 | The gates are usually locked at night and it used to be fairly standard practice that people going in and out had to identify themselves . |
| 18 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 19 | And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then . |
| 20 | ‘ I miss the comradeship and there used to be a lot among directors and with other clubs . |
| 21 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 22 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 23 | The Turks then flog them along the tourist drag between the Brandenburg Gate and what used to be Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 24 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 25 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 26 | There was a a lot of shops on and then as across the road there used to be a Road and there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 27 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 28 | Namely : Sussex , Middlesex , Essex and what used to be Wessex . |
| 29 | Yah , they 're taking it off the satellite and it used to be there was always the seven o'clock news , except in central side when it was always the six o'clock news , but now it 's on at like any old time , five thirty , six thirty , seven . |
| 30 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |