Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [prep] be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me . |
| 2 | I used to be Evelyn Waugh , you know . |
| 3 | I used to be Napoleon |
| 4 | Left : This Welsh dresser is in the second kitchen , which used to be Elizabeth Jane 's nursery when she was a child . |
| 5 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 6 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 7 | Alyce Faye , with whom he now lives , sunbathes in the garden and chats to a friend who used to be John 's accountant ( ‘ A Bennite , ’ says John , rather proudly . ) |
| 8 | I may not be good at long-lasting relationships , but even I can see this is not the way to become those Folks on the Hill , Darby and Joan , who used to be Jack and Jill … |
| 9 | She used to be Crilly 's stealing partner . |
| 10 | ‘ She used to be Susan Hart : that help at all ? ’ |
| 11 | But you got people staring at you , you got people s coming up to you and saying , did n't you used to be Adam Faith ? |
| 12 | Well , I did , or you tend to be , you used to be Claire , when you used to wax your legs . |
| 13 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 14 | And there used to be Gloria , and I still have to think about her even if she is n't here . |
| 15 | They used to be Captain America , until Mr Marvel got the hump and Mr C&A took exception to their logo , now they 're called EUGENIUS , Kurt Cobain still likes them a lot and they may well be the new Nirvana of Vaselined Fannies . |
| 16 | They used to be Bangor fans but I think I have won them over to Glentoran . ’ |
| 17 | No , very few , erm in Lane , which is now in an estate agent 's parlance , erm a desirable part of the town , they used to be Mr the local the solicitor , of Castlegate , and his wife used to drive him to the station , to catch the train to Nottingham . |
| 18 | ‘ It ought to be Gloucestershire , of course ’ , says Mrs Hewer . |
| 19 | For alliteration it ought to be Pablo or Picauo . |
| 20 | I always remember going to , somewhere with Ken this girl gave us a lump of cheese , it must of been Cheshire . |
| 21 | Yes , I think it might of been Wednesday |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | It could of been Sally 's friend . |
| 24 | Mark David well it could of been Mark Andrew and then it 'd been Mat at least your name , your initials do n't spell any thing rude |
| 25 | It used to be Oxford Poly , yeah . |
| 26 | It used to be Beafra picking the flies off the trees . |
| 27 | ‘ It used to be Saturday nights , and that was all , bar taking the laundry , an hour Wednesdays . |
| 28 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 29 | He does n't believe his wife 's 92-year-old grandmother , Wendy ( Maggie Smith ) , when she assures him that he used to be Peter Pan . |
| 30 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |