Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word
2 Well it must of been we have n't had any nice weather for ages
3 they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join
4 This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah
5 must of been one must n't they ?
6 she just been over some house in Trafford Road and er , I think she left some , some by there by what she said or to who , who it were , but it must of been them who put them onto us , because she come in
7 Well I suppose it must of been me but I have no idea when or why or where because I generally cut the erm side bits off .
8 It were n't a tenner each , must of been I would say about six quid each
9 Erm , and feeling there was it must of been he said today I 've cooked Sunday lunch and erm , she ate half of it and I thought then she finished it .
10 Yeah , that must of been it .
11 Aye might of been her then , she 's only a young lass
12 Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well .
13 Could of been them .
14 I did n't used to be one to leave dreams be .
15 Well there used to be one .
16 Yes , yeah there used there used to be one go down , another one used to be coming up .
17 Lord for instance and er there used to be one from this way , Portmadoc somewhere , the place was the place was called .
18 I 've normally caught a train that 's gone thro straight through , there used to wo I do n't know whether there still is but there always used to be one .
19 Used to be one about
20 Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and
21 I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly !
22 Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites
23 Wonderful trees , there 's one that that used to be something called
24 Yeah , mine , mine used to be something like quarter to twelve , did n't it , quarter to twelve till three , and then they decided to change round , it used to be quarter to twelve to six , did n't it ?
25 I feel like a Polo Mint , a thick , brittle wall surrounding a void that used to be me .
26 Three where there used to be me , or Mary and er May , she was the youngest , she was only a baby May and Miss er May was cos she was the youngest .
27 I used to there used to be me and my sister .
28 Yes there used to be her son , and there used to be me , and there used to be a a girl name Edith right , and there used to be her sister , Ethel right , and then there used to be another young girl named Clara .
29 Yes there used to be her son , and there used to be me , and there used to be a a girl name Edith right , and there used to be her sister , Ethel right , and then there used to be another young girl named Clara .
30 Yes there used to be her son , and there used to be me , and there used to be a a girl name Edith right , and there used to be her sister , Ethel right , and then there used to be another young girl named Clara .
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