Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheringham should be way ahead of him , as should most of the strikers in the premier league … |
| 2 | Oh I can , I can understand what must be going through her mind , it must still of been a terrible time . |
| 3 | He was musing that the synthetic religions of Stalin and Hitler should neither of them ‘ properly be called pagan , but if you do call them pagan then we must say that they 're inferior as religions to genuine primitive pagan religion ’ . |
| 4 | There is no legal reason why your next-door neighbour should n't take out your appendix , or you his , should either of you feel so inclined , though the premiums for third-party insurance might be prohibitively high . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a great comfort to me , knowing that I 'm on the end of a phone , should either of my children be taken ill , ’ says Elaine , 34 , a part-time marketing consultant and mother of two girls under four . |
| 6 | Should either of these situations occur , wrong control actions may be taken and a potential accident sequence initiated . |
| 7 | The sale of Speed or Macca would be unforgivable by the board or Wilko should either of these two depart then the club would face a wholesale revolt . |
| 8 | If you feel confident in the assessors you can relax and behave as you should instead of feeling the need to get yourself noticed . |
| 9 | What she can also have , which might at first glance seen off-putting , is great expertise in some abstruse art or science , though this should never of course be an unpleasant one . |
| 10 | Sorry we should never of let them in first |
| 11 | It might well of been . |
| 12 | I 'd rather of had Christmas pudding |
| 13 | Oh it could only of been at five thirty |
| 14 | I 'm just glad we are n't going , I mean we could easily of had to go tonight . |
| 15 | I was very glad were not , we we could easily of been going to tonight . |
| 16 | Cor there must be some reason for it of course , perhaps they 're not , not erm picking up or yes I could easily of bought erm a couple bottles of wine to make that |
| 17 | But it could always of course come in as an odd . |
| 18 | But I mean there 's a Wed a Thursday night we could always of said you know |
| 19 | Now I suggest Chairman that there are number of on your paper which probably the Committee could really of this stage I think the sort of important ones . |
| 20 | Oh it could well of been then , yeah . |
| 21 | Could either of the trends be described as ‘ linear ’ ? |
| 22 | Looking back , they could neither of them understand how they had managed to rub along ; yet they had . |
| 23 | When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ? |
| 24 | I must admit I 'd never of dreamed . |
| 25 | It was also generally believed that , while good works could never of themselves merit salvation , the leading of a saintly life was both a consequence and a sign of one 's elect status . |
| 26 | I could never of got them and got her hair cut cos she did do it slowly and got it level |
| 27 | Last week a government report said that if the A T F had arrested Koresh in town , all the mayhem that followed need never of happened and those who died might still have been alive . |
| 28 | At any rate , though we would most of us like to maintain that Pound 's Fascism is a quite distinct issue from Pound 's poetry and his criticism , it is plain that we can not do this . |
| 29 | Based on the evidence of those first episodes of Butterflies back in 1978 , which of those two would most of us have put our money on to become a TV star ? |
| 30 | they , they would normally of er received that during the year ending August nineteen ninety two |