Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 62 | The colour range used to be wide , as in other Scottish cattle , including red-and-white , solid red , dun , dun-and-white , yellow , solid black , blue , grey , grey-and-white , brown-and-white , brindle , white with blue or black on the neck , black riggit ( finchback ) , brockle-faced and even belted . |
| 63 | CATHERINE Well , you used to be conceited enough without me having to add to it . |
| 64 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 65 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 66 | And it used to be dark brown . |
| 67 | He used to be dark haired and worked in the toy shop in Sandhurst . |
| 68 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 69 | Challenges based on interpretation ( or " construction " ) arguments used to be effective : see an example at 7.2.4 , where the court investigated the technology of oil fields in order to interpret the expert procedure . |
| 70 | It used to be amazing at the end of the week to be paid , to have money in your hand for the work you had done . |
| 71 | Does n't seem to vanish as much as it used to , the Manifold , used to be dry in places most of the summer . |
| 72 | ‘ She used to be married . ’ |
| 73 | This puts services which used to be available free from the hospital out of reach of patients on low income and those with chronic health conditions who require multidisciplinary care . |
| 74 | The modern word ‘ chin ’ , for example , used to be pronounced ‘ kin ’ in Old English and many other similar words have changed their pronunciation . |
| 75 | That is not being disingenuous : that is asking for the kind of conduct that used to be normal on both sides of the House . |
| 76 | I remember that warehouse , it used to be nice department store , everything knowingly oversold . |
| 77 | They used to be nice little lads and all going round and quiet and the they used to then the tram cars used to lo run along Road . |
| 78 | His own company is working on a project in East Dorset to establish a course with heathland areas on what used to be agricultural land . |
| 79 | However , and it also has a down- side because now the contractors will be able to see the information which used to be confidential that local authorities will be putting on the table , but the point is it 's a chink , it 's a way forward we need to build on this . |
| 80 | When I used to be involved in the old days , people used to say : ‘ I 'm from Coopers , I 'm from Peats , and this is the way we do it' ’ . |
| 81 | He used to be involved in local community affairs ( as a local authority councillor and later as a JP ) , but has now largely withdrawn from these activities . |
| 82 | Much of the labour which used to be involved in manipulating and presenting data can now be delegated to specialised computer software but the basic issues of coding and structuring data still depend on the skills of the analyst . |
| 83 | While many of the older farm workers nostalgically regret the passing of horses , none regrets the way in which mechanization has removed much of the physical effort and routine drudgery that used to be involved in working on a farm . |
| 84 | ‘ You know there are young people , even more meshuggeh than you — who used to be involved with drugs and being hippies in India and God knows what crazy stuff-until they met the Maggid and Returned to the Faith . |
| 85 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 86 | Allied-Maples , the present group title of what used to be Allied Carpets , built its reputation on aggressively-priced , high street carpet stores . |
| 87 | THE Dutch government is not fond of Lieut-Colonel Desi Bouterse , who runs the army and scares politicians in Suriname , the Latin American country which used to be Dutch Guiana . |
| 88 | It used to be respectable , an acceptable article of faith even , to quote Wordsworth . |
| 89 | Looking back on his earlier career , he said : ‘ Banks used to be terrible at monitoring their own costs and profitability . |
| 90 | Yeah used to be terrible did n't it ? |