Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I must of been on holiday dad , with the girls or something . |
| 2 | well it might of been on Radio Times , but |
| 3 | No she 'd of been to Salvation Army |
| 4 | No one with half an eye on current trends is mentioning that his main claim to fame used to be as Susan Sarandon 's toy boy . |
| 5 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 6 | So it hardly matters that Connery lives mostly in Marbella , that his residence for tax purposes , used to be on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and is now an apartment in Monte Carlo , although he still has the place in the Bahamas . |
| 7 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 8 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 9 | Within yards of the station , you can catch trout for tea , sup Yorkshire ale , and see how things used to be at Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life . |
| 10 | a smallish guy , er , sandy , sandy hair cut short , very stocky , er he used to be up at , he used to be at Glenmore Lodge |
| 11 | On The Other Hand used to be with Downpatrick trainer Jeremy Maxwell and is now with National expert Gordon Richards who bought him out of John Mulherne 's yard recently . |
| 12 | He used to be with Midland Bank , Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Did n't he used to be in scrap metal is what Francis was |
| 14 | The offices used to be in West Byfleet in Surrey . |
| 15 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 16 | The commonest example of time-lapse stop-motion used to be in biology films , like the old Rank Secrets of Nature by Mary Field or innumerable educational films for schools from companies like Encyclopaedia Britannica Films . |
| 17 | It used to be by shirt no for each game . |
| 18 | All God 's fear on earth used to be behind Mrs Tiller . |
| 19 | If we are sensible it ought to be against San Marino in February . ’ |
| 20 | He was n't sure just how worried he ought to be by Therese Aschmann . |