Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 2 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 3 | And yet , years ago they used to be long , long trains . |
| 4 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
| 5 | Regardless of whether it is a tithe or an offering over and above , it is good to analyse the sorts of places where we ought to be giving God 's money . |
| 6 | Ah , ah , ah but , ah but you ca n't let me see , you do n't , you do n't remember the war years when I used to be in town while she was out . |
| 7 | You never get any good political meetings now there used to be |
| 8 | ‘ And I can only say that the Master will not like it if his breakfast and lunch do not arrive on time , because he serves his maid coffee , engages her in chit-chat , and encourages her to read disreputable papers when she ought to be blackleading the range , or scrubbing the kitchen floor . ’ |