Example sentences of "[adv] there [modal v] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there ought to be a law like that , but there is n't at the moment . |
| 2 | Perhaps there ought to be an intelligence extradition agreement that all defectors are immediately put on the first aircraft back home . |
| 3 | Well there used to be a dressing rooms on erm on Road there . |
| 4 | Well there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 5 | Well there used to be a house there . |
| 6 | Did n't there used to be a cottage on that roadside where them big tanks is , did n't there used to be some cottages . |
| 7 | Merrill 's dark eyebrows lifted a little ; surely there ought to be a reception desk , and someone to attend to visitors ? |
| 8 | Well and then there used to be a stripper it 's a a long thing like that and there and er you 'd put it on . |
| 9 | There was Pat , he swept chimleys , er and then there used to be an old fellow come , he used to mend , mend dishes you ken , what you call a china faker . |
| 10 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 11 | And then there used to be the Hippodrome and the Empire . |
| 12 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 13 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |