Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Michael should of been here for this one , |
| 2 | What the one that should of been here ? |
| 3 | Cos he just said that should of been enough . |
| 4 | , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing . |
| 5 | What a prat , she should of been further al further along |
| 6 | I tell you something I was amazed at erm the reading book he appeared with , Fluff and Nip and goodness knows what that went out with the ark when I came out of college , I do n't know whether they 're all reading that or whether it 's just sort of found them and must of been just perhaps a one off or something , but , I was amazed |
| 7 | so there would of been nothing there for him to go for , you must of been ever so worried following him around watching him . |
| 8 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 9 | It must of been , it must of been very difficult for her ? |
| 10 | He must of been totally fucked |
| 11 | come down with the stairs to chap , young chap , I told you he 's knocking on the door , it must of been then . |
| 12 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 13 | I 've got plants , quite a few plants upstairs , the only geraniums I 've put in my greenhouse has died , must of been too cold for them |
| 14 | and I said oh there 's Benjy , there must be something , you know , I thought it was one of the kids that had jumped or something because the little one had always climbing and jumping off the wall , breaking his leg you know the weak one , and the next minute saw the ambulance outside , but he must of been , it must of been too massive to be able to do anything cos he was n't breathing that bit you see |
| 15 | Well I thought our John might of been here yesterday , but he did n't come |
| 16 | No I did n't seem them , might , might of been there I never noticed them |
| 17 | of course it was n't a very nice day I grant the , but erm , I thought he 'd of been here |
| 18 | well they 'd of been here thought of been desperate for that would n't you ? |
| 19 | If I 'd of been there I 'd of flogged that a long while ago and got rid of it |
| 20 | The incidence is one in ten thousand so it 's pretty rare but untreated these children will grow up very seriously , mentally retarded , very , very poor quality of life and enormous stress on their families , when they could of been nearly normal , right so the cause is one of these essential amino acids which is powdered protein , so what 's the treatment ? |
| 21 | Yeah , yeah , that 's what I mean , I mean he could of been fucking I R A |
| 22 | Yeah , you 're longest chain is a six so it could of been clearly based on hexane . |
| 23 | that ducks do have eggs it 's possible they could of been there but they were n't . |
| 24 | Oh yes , yes , we , the we had an extremely large rooms , I do n't know went , what , what , what went wrong the architect but we had two enormous rooms which could of been quite easily divided into three , but we could of had two bedrooms instead of one and the conse |
| 25 | Could of been indeed . |
| 26 | He apologised to readers and to Philips Dictation Systems : ‘ Could of was simply a typesetting error that slipped passed the keenest eyes ’ , he wrote . |
| 27 | ‘ There used to be plenty — small perch , and pike , and eel — but they never seemed to grow to any size . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You mean the old fortune-teller who used to be here ? |
| 29 | ‘ This never used to be here , ’ said Bellamy . |
| 30 | Are we slap a tax on , tariff on there that reduces consumption right , what with world prices , world prices they used to be here they 're now down here alright . |