Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should of been done any way . |
| 2 | Should of been done had n't it ? |
| 3 | which should of been bricked right the way in |
| 4 | he should of been murdered first he was awful |
| 5 | so let's go back to home for a moment you say it was updated or should of been updated twenty one months later , as the first update |
| 6 | I mean she , she really should of been summonsed for |
| 7 | Well you must of been gone mother . |
| 8 | I thought , cos there 's a car up road with it , must of been stood there like all the bad weather |
| 9 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |
| 10 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 11 | Jack , he must of been painted for years , he 's been on ship . |
| 12 | And I said renting it , because it must of been occupied by animals ! |
| 13 | He must of been picked from the Conservative to stand would he ? |
| 14 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 15 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 16 | Just as disturbingly , the draft guidance goes on to suggest that in order to allow future generations to have some reserves after 2011 , some of these potentially very damaging permissions should to be held in reserve to satisfy the principle of sustainable development ! |
| 17 | Just as disturbingly , the draft guidance goes on to suggest that in order to allow future generations to have some reserves after 2011 , some of these potentially very damaging permissions should to be held in reserve to satisfy the principle of sustainable development ! |
| 18 | P P G three , the revised P P G three when it came out clearly , in my opinion changes the emphasis from the draft P P G three from the draft P P G three , paragraphs thirty two and thirty three which I would emphasize should to be read together , clearly indicates that new settlements are as someone said this morning , sorry , earlier in the discussion today , an issue of last resort . |
| 19 | oh , they may of been updated then , the question I asked you was a different one , when was the moment when they became inaccurate ? |
| 20 | Well then you 'll have to sort , by then with a bit of luck you might of been established with somewhere yourself might n't ya ? |
| 21 | There was a silence for the first time it occurred to first form that the spider might of been put there on purpose , they looked at one another . |
| 22 | Good job we did n't go to school after all , cos you 'd of run round in the playground , you 'd of been shattered ! oops , too late ! |
| 23 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 24 | you know , thinking they will , oh christ you know what am I sitting down here for doing that anyhow , I could of been done that at home before I did n't have |
| 25 | could of been tempted . |
| 26 | So at that time that could of been taken into the context of , or one anyway , going to the same place |
| 27 | I am used to being ignored and slighted , but mark this well ! |
| 28 | she never slept and our Edmond used to be worn out |
| 29 | It used to be argued that turbulence was necessary to ensure the oxygenation of the water and the continuation of the food supply , but it is now thought that the main role of turbulence is in getting rid of excess carbon dioxide . |
| 30 | It used to be argued that , for example , a motorway could not be sold or that no one would buy a sewer . |