Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 2 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 3 | We went to this restaurant one night up in the mountain , he was starting to tell you , we walked in and there was all these people about eighteen and twenty sitting in the middle of the room and we went in , and it was late , it must of been eleven and we said you know can we eat and he said yes , yes and after he said , he said |
| 4 | It must of been fifty one , June |
| 5 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 6 | It must of been five |
| 7 | It must of been five |
| 8 | I said there must of been one |
| 9 | I thought that , that must of been twenty odd years since dad died then . |
| 10 | but er , I do n't know how he got out yesterday and I 've never , never know him parked down the road , not at all , anyway we got , I got home and erm , I said to Bev you know , right go and phone Lesley see if she 's in and then I did a bit of housework and then the phone rang , ooh , we was aiming to go out at one and that must of been ten to one , and it was Liz |
| 11 | Warmer There must of been three thousand , two and a half thousand , membership at Birmingham 's |
| 12 | Warmer There must of been three thousand , two and a half thousand , membership at Birmingham 's |
| 13 | and you Mr revealed something new , I hope you do n't , there may of been two if not three editions |
| 14 | Might be a bit more than that , but erm , could of been nine . |
| 15 | ‘ There used to be 200 , but since the food stopped coming … a lot of women came mainly for the donations . |
| 16 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 17 | It used to be seventy something . |
| 18 | In a publishing deal , the average splits used to be 50:50 . |
| 19 | There used to be five men go on a boat . |
| 20 | The law is very unclear on what this time limit is — it used to be six years , but some would hold that there is now no limit to the liability . |
| 21 | It used to be six months did n't it , and now it 's gone up |
| 22 | What are the report , what , what 's in clauses what used to be thirty seven and thirty eight ? |
| 23 | We could hardly get inside for rubbish and could n't see the floor , it was all dirt , and there used to be two or three benches on which we had to sit down ; then old Morgan would read the Bible to us and pray , we had to kneel down — oh what a dry lesson . |
| 24 | There used to be two varieties known as the Maroilles and Picardy in France . |
| 25 | There used to be two small hamlets just outside but part of the village , known as Mill Cottages and Pry Cottages . |
| 26 | There used to be two shelves in the oven . |
| 27 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 28 | There us used to be two sticks . |
| 29 | There used to be two hundred monks here . ’ |
| 30 | Exactly oh yes that was shared between the men what erm , there used to be two men so they 'd get er share the three pound between them or five pound whatever it was . |