Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] to [be] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to be All the lads the same age as me there . |
| 2 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 3 | With a horse , I had a horse then , and er there u there used to be er there used to be three or four of us there with horses and we we used to The the the From the coal face there used to be all individual horses bringing odd tubs into a turnout What we called a turner which was a collection of different tubs you see ? |
| 4 | And there used to be all them sort of things . |
| 5 | Well when they 've got this here lace , there used to be all pins at the side of this er of these er frames . |
| 6 | When there used to be all houses round there , there used to be a fish shop there as well . |
| 7 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 8 | and that , well th well that was cos there used to be all hot cinders you know like coke , red hot coke and they always had clogs then with leather tops . |
| 9 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 10 | I think that 's where they got the idea and they used to be all leather , thigh boots . |
| 11 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 12 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 13 | It used to be all green that 's better |
| 14 | It 's different , it used to be all green ice cream , but it 's now got all white layers , got a white , white |
| 15 | It used to be all in that little log book on the wall . |
| 16 | And I 've seen Harry Lloyd and er Houdini what they call him you know , where he used to be all strapped in chains and get out of tanks and that . |