Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " I used to be on the stage myself , " said Grace , " a long time ago . |
| 32 | No I did n't cos I was on , I used to be on a oil card delivering paraffin oil round the countryside and then cos I used to stink apparently and then I got this job at er on a pushbike |
| 33 | Besides , do n't you remember how lonely you used to be on your own ? ’ |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 36 | Gary Ventress , who used to be on Sunderland 's ground staff , has moved from Whitburn and should add stability to Murton 's early batting order . |
| 37 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 38 | HE 'S mean , he 's moody , he used to be on The Tube and he can play the piano . |
| 39 | She 's over there because she used to be on the erm |
| 40 | Twelve , thirteen , yeah cos he used to be on ten at the old place and he gets about two thousand more |
| 41 | Do you remember that George and Mildred used to be on telly in comedy ? |
| 42 | That 's the the four colours , used to be on the |
| 43 | Cos what it does , it remembers tools tool holes that used to be on there . |
| 44 | I remember the Carpenters used to be on here you know . |
| 45 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 46 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 47 | but this one seems to of gone haywire , oh does he go , but as I say she 's changed the bedrooms you see , he used to be on the far end |
| 48 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 49 | What 's the national flower of England , the , the , the one that used to be on the thruppenny bit ? |
| 50 | On a Saturday night , there used to be at the bottom of Scotland Road — Byrom Street — all the Irishmen . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | To begin with there must be detailed analyses of small and intermediate-size LOCA 's as well as the large double ended breaks that used to be at the centre of safety analyses and formed the so-called ‘ design basis ’ accident . |
| 53 | ‘ He used to be at Cowley , ’ said Jack rather reluctantly , not feeling up to casual conversation . |
| 54 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
| 55 | I feel that I really ought to spend six minutes answering the kind of letter that begins : ‘ I used to be at your prep school . |
| 56 | Mercury account number , talk to Connie erm who used to be at Hull . |
| 57 | And they were like that and then of course they used to be er no washing machines you used to be at these here tubs . |
| 58 | And er get and then strip this er at the side , cos a girl used to be at the front to strip all this here lace of these here pins . |
| 59 | I remember once , they used to be at 's . |
| 60 | Oh no they were based in the town , at buildings , used to be at the buildings . |