Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you should of been learning those |
| 2 | , 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 . |
| 3 | Bashed your dad 's side , the wing and we could see a policeman putting , it was pouring with rain and he was putting his er , big mac on and he should of been directing the traffic , he told us that , he come over to us and he was only young like and he said , oh I 'd just left , I was on duty here I 'd just left to go and put my mac on ! |
| 4 | yeah , and he wants to , he came home this morning and he said , he must of been thinking about it , and he said well we could emulsion the walls , he said erm , why do n't we do an apricot white , I says well that 's peach , I said the |
| 5 | Well it , according to what I read before , they say they staple the stomach down to the size of er , of a tea spoon , so presumably she , her stomach must only receive , she must of been eating twenty four hours a day , you know , to keep they , she did n't lose any weight , the other girl did , but er |
| 6 | So he put it in shed , left it in shed for a while and then it were not last year the year before , he took it down , I 'm putting this in dustbin duck he says it 's no damn good , we went on holiday and me daughter 's boyfriend came down while we were away and er , he must of been looking in dustbin he says what 's this telly doing , our Mandy said it 's no good , me dad 's slinging it out , so he took it home and fixed it , it 's been going ever since |
| 7 | He must of been feeling unwell then |
| 8 | You know , so they must of been talking about it |
| 9 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 10 | it 'd look like that might of been looking in the markets and that |
| 11 | He might of been taking after Sneezy are n't you ? |
| 12 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 13 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
| 14 | ‘ Pupils who write could of are applying good phonic principles of writing , ’ wrote one trendy clown of an educationist , ‘ because they always hear the unstressed ‘ have ’ of ‘ could have ’ reduced in pronunciation ’ ( yes , on radio and TV — and , if you ask me , this asda be bad ) . |
| 15 | Could of been using me French |
| 16 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 17 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 18 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 19 | I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing . |
| 20 | So many famous families used to be living here . |
| 21 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 22 | People of your level do n't talk to people of my level , and that 's changing the organisation , but it certainly used to used to be getting organisations . |
| 23 | And we used to be selling them at midnight . |
| 24 | On the end of this walk that used to bother me , cos it used to be going till four and five in the mo you know in the morning . |
| 25 | He said never been and I used to be going like this to you . |
| 26 | Yeah and she used to be hammering on the door , twenty past five you know yeah |
| 27 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 28 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 29 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 30 | Her used to be working on the roads , see , quarrying , work on the roads , crack stones . ’ |