Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 But I mean it used to be every day
2 and I mean it used to be the fact , oh god well we 've got to sort of have dinner at twelve o'clock , we 've got to be round there by four .
3 stick tea bag in it now , cos I mean it used to be tea did n't it , all at one time ?
4 I mean it could of been a lot been worse than this !
5 I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes
6 With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't .
7 When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them .
8 He says that 's what you want but I said yeah but there ai n't no bloody fit I reckon it ought to be them on legs maybe .
9 I reckon it ought to be compulsory that .
10 I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast
11 Yeah I suppose it would of been alright like , but I do n't like keeping them
12 Well I suppose it must of been me but I have no idea when or why or where because I generally cut the erm side bits off .
13 I thought it would of been C cos they 're yellow over there i n't they ?
14 Oh , cheap , oh I thought it would of been about fifty pounds
15 I thought it might of been a women that was .
16 I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing
17 Yes , I think it might of been Wednesday
18 Well she we to start with she went I think it might of been that cos we put Guy in it I think , that might have upset her .
19 We still find Christian undergraduates entering universities , and ordinands coming into theological colleges , who have no idea of the tremendous advances that have been made in biblical scholarship and whose first contact with historical criticism is a dismaying and frightening experience instead of , as I think it ought to be , a liberating and wholly enhancing experience .
20 I think now that it exists it ought to be giving money to these things , but I think it ought to be taking the advice of the panels of artists and museum people .
21 One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters .
22 I think it ought to be a regular feature , a regular feature for everywhere regardless , because it was felt that er during the the May play which proved to be wrong
23 It may not be the first thing at the top of our minds when we 're , when we 're checking the thing but I think it ought to be checked for that .
24 It 's our credibility as well you know we 're being told quality of service etc etc and I think it ought to be a department meeting we all ought to have the opportunity to put forward what we 're doing and where we 're going .
25 I think it ought to be made clear that the the voices that you can hear , or will be hearing in the next half an hour or so will be that of the television .
26 I think it must of been , it had to be on a Saturday I believe
27 Do n't you think it would of been absolutely Super to have been Immortalised by Robert Burns ?
28 But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ?
29 She says it used to be beautiful , but the rectory and the church are a disgrace .
30 Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality .
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