Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't used to really , ooh it must of been murder for him when you think ! |
| 2 | This guy , his flares must of been sort of |
| 3 | Sandy must be having company , pulled the blind down I think that 's why they 've been good about the parking this week , cos I mean Irene 's pulled her car , we saw Irene pull her car in was you here when she I saw her get in it , it must of been teatime yesterday |
| 4 | no I just left it cos it might , I do n't know it might of been side B , I think it was , side B was |
| 5 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 6 | Did n't you know he used to be feather weight champion of Scotland |
| 7 | Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then . |
| 8 | The deal was won by TVMM against strong competition from Scottish Televison , which used to be part of the same organisation as Grampian . |
| 9 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 10 | Sweden used to be part of the ‘ snake ’ ( predecessor of the European exchange-rate mechanism ) , but quit in 1977 , so that it could keep control of its own economic policy . |
| 11 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 12 | Mr Morraine told us it used to be part of the mainland . ’ |
| 13 | They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority . |
| 14 | Meco , which used to be part of the Dowty Group , makes mining equipment including pit props . |
| 15 | And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas . |
| 16 | Grass , which used to be mown , is left to revert to meadow , and native trees planted between the nuclear reactors and the accelerators . |
| 17 | During a recent election broadcast he featured as Sir Denis ‘ Foreman ’ — as in the foreman of a building site , rather than of Granada of which he used to be deputy chairman . |
| 18 | Locust beans they used to be animal feed I think . |
| 19 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |
| 20 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 21 | It was , it was used used to be stuff from these restaurants and they were n't particular what they threw in it was all these knives and things |
| 22 | Jim Lowe , Fiona 's father , used to be chairman of the club and is also on the Nordic committee of the Scottish National Ski Council . |
| 23 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 24 | During the Labour landslide they used to be love letters . |
| 25 | It used to be airport north at that time , small house on the edge of the Western side is n't it ? |
| 26 | It is triable summarily so that now what used to be rape may be prosecuted as a summary offence punishable with a maximum of six months ’ imprisonment or a fine of not more than $500 . |
| 27 | ‘ There used to be sea here , ’ he remarked , sweeping his conning tower of an arm around in a wide arc . |
| 28 | Recently some areas which used to be moorland have been enclosed and ploughed , mainly on Exmoor . |
| 29 | It used to be midnight . |
| 30 | Well it used to , it used to be midnight . |