Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now with them changing the the changeover cos they always used to be the letters followed by the numbers . |
| 2 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 3 | Now Canada is where young men hang out when they really ought to be in Vietnam . |
| 4 | There is a primitive look to them : they are small ( perhaps 100cm at the withers , and weighing 280–300kg , though they probably used to be larger ) and very narrow in the hindquarters . |
| 5 | Children brought up on a diet of TV and video are no longer as tractable and easy to control , as they once used to be , even in the younger classes of the junior school . |