Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway , we started talking about him , they 're doing a survey and er and suddenly it must of been a quarter of an hour later remember the the drinks , I have n't done any drinks ! |
| 2 | He must of been an admiral of title somewhere else , ha ha . |
| 3 | What I could with is a holiday from this perpetual holiday of a life . |
| 4 | This used to be a problem for many people as a result of the Earnings Rule . |
| 5 | Money always used to be a problem in my own life . |
| 6 | used to be a cripple on Hollywood . |
| 7 | There used to be a song on television , Grant . |
| 8 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 9 | Only yesterday , it used to be a way of life . |
| 10 | For Craig Cook , a reformed car thief , this used to be a way of life . |
| 11 | Any old people knows the chemists and it was ge there used to be a park at the side on it and all . |
| 12 | ‘ My father used to be a member of the County Cricket Club . ’ |
| 13 | I used to be a member of the Society 's Race Relations Committee . |
| 14 | I 'm keen to see a real dialogue with our members , er , how we achieve that I do n't know , we 've got the most enormous diversity of membership as I mentioned in my speech , but the more that we can get a a good dialogue going , and certainly I used to be a member of Health and erm , Disability Group , and remember that it was a very useful meeting point , er , as well as a good arena for developing policy initiatives . |
| 15 | Did n't there used to be a cottage on that roadside where them big tanks is , did n't there used to be some cottages . |
| 16 | It used to be a ha'penny on the front row , you see ? |
| 17 | He used to be a vicar in Bournemouth and before he got the call he was a salesman . |
| 18 | We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off |
| 19 | That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the . |
| 20 | You used to be a welder in the yards did n't you , Sergeant ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ She used to be a bit of a lost soul , ’ says Jakki , ‘ but she 's changed a lot recently and I think that 's all down to Michael Hutchence . |
| 22 | S. S. The only bit of crowd trouble we had was the Catholics on the north side of the division and the Orangemen on the south side ; when the 12th of July was approaching there used to be a bit of trouble . |
| 23 | It 's a good castrating because it used to be a bit of a |
| 24 | It used to be a thistle on the little thruppenny |
| 25 | ‘ There used to be a barn in that dip over to the left . |
| 26 | It used to be a couple of coastguard cottages but has now been converted and sleeps twenty five in twin bedded rooms . |
| 27 | we have n't had one for oh many what fifteen , twenty years a co er there used to be a couple of women used to come to sell rock . |
| 28 | ‘ There used to be a stigma about warm-up men , ’ says Ted . |
| 29 | There used to be a man in the office … but it did n't work out . |
| 30 | The moorlands also used to be a larder for great raptors : hen harrier and short-eared owl , quartering the heather in endless search of prey . |