Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I REMEMBER the innocent days back when Club Dog used to be run out of a scout hut in Wood Green . |
| 2 | ‘ We used to be harassed constantly by officials of the Municipal Corporation for running what they called an illegal business . |
| 3 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 4 | Winter snow used to be stored here from nearby drifts and provided a supply of caked ice throughout the following summer for the wealthy inhabitants and the hotels in Funchal . |
| 5 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 6 | It sets free nuclear explosives that used to be tucked away in superpower arsenals , and must now be disposed of |
| 7 | History used to be written only about the activities of the small group of men and women who held positions of power . |
| 8 | He used to be stopped frequently after work and normally he just told the constable he was a policeman straight away . |
| 9 | It was , in fact , the once-trendy Manhattan disco Studio 54 , where people used to be turned away for not being Beautiful . |
| 10 | The countryside all around , and the woods of the Buskett Gardens , and the bastions around Mdina , used to be lit up by torch-lights and bonfires . |
| 11 | Consequently , whereas computer networks used to be regarded primarily as a way of sharing expensive equipment — for instance , by hooking several sites up to a single mainframe — now the emphasis is increasingly on the sharing of information . |
| 12 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 13 | The results of the race used to be worked out in the Jay dining-room , with a lot of people doing a lot of mental arithmetic . |
| 14 | The walk passes two buildings of particular interest , the 16th-century timber-framed Moot Hall and the church of St Peter and St Paul ( largely 16th-century interior ; shop auctions used to be held inside at that period ) , but the rest of the town also deserves exploration . |
| 15 | Long freight trains used to be lined up in the Trench Yard awaiting collection by British Rail going East to Stafford and West to Wellington . |
| 16 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 17 | They used to be marketed jointly by Rover and a company called Brayman who own sixty percent of Rover 's American outfit . |
| 18 | lay on for them and erm also of course erm , I know , people like erm Mr and Mr they used to be picked up by er , by some chaps in a jeep or Army truck . |
| 19 | Dormice used to be found all over the Midlands and South of England . |
| 20 | Where we were dru , the spi , the Espinear used to be drummed down for about five , six , seven years . |
| 21 | Marie passed the old chalets , neglected and boarded up now , their paint peeling , their woodwork rotting away , that used to be rented out to holidaymakers . |
| 22 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
| 23 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 24 | The New Testament ought to be understood not as a resource for abstract theological thinking , but as a divine drama : the story of the Great Battle . |
| 25 | There are many factors which indicate that rehabilitation should become a community-based process into which the hospital facilities can feed , but which ought to be based closer to the patient 's home . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , you cheeky cuss , ’ she said , ‘ I might be poor and 'omeless , but I 'm respectable , I am , and I ai n't goin' to listen to you talkin' about my bottom , you ought to be locked up for even mentioning it . ’ |
| 27 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 28 | ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home . |
| 29 | ‘ But really , I ought to be tucked up in bed now . |
| 30 | If colleges of nursing can not supply these , then nurse education ought to be transferred away from the colleges and onto polytechnics and universities . |