Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 2 | well we should of been out there watering them |
| 3 | Seemed a bit daft to me though you 'd think they , mind you they 'd , they 'd supposed to of had erm er sub contractors down there , in that , that is disgusting , some of these should of been out of the door the . |
| 4 | He must of been up quite a while cos this the thing 's fell down has n't it ? |
| 5 | Oh and you used to let us stop up and watch him , it must of been on at about nine o'clock or something |
| 6 | it 's probably , it , it may of been up to three years |
| 7 | They might of been out you see ! |
| 8 | if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer |
| 9 | Crane Holdings are what is left of Crane-Freuhauf , the well-known trailer manufacturers that used to be around . |
| 10 | Because your bonus is really a , used to be around about five percent but if you look at them now , they 've restructured them , which means they 've reduced them . |
| 11 | One which used to be around was alright uncle how you doing . |
| 12 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 13 | Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then |
| 14 | We used to watch it on Saturday afternoons , that always used to be on , wrestling . |
| 15 | Oh it was lovely that was and remember that programme that used to be on , erm Within These Walls about the prison , the women in prison ? |
| 16 | I tell you a good programme which used to be on was erm oh fucking Auf Wiedersehn Pet . |
| 17 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 18 | a smallish guy , er , sandy , sandy hair cut short , very stocky , er he used to be up at , he used to be at Glenmore Lodge |
| 19 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 20 | Men used to be down on haunches you know and the and the women stand there arms folded gassing , gassing away . |
| 21 | It was his father , Colin Cauldhame , who got the cordite from the ship-breaking yard there used to be down the coast . |
| 22 | Used to go down , well I used to be down every night , rubbing the salt in this , to make the bacon and I had a smokehouse down the yard where I used to smoke the bacon . |
| 23 | It used to be down to Meadow Road . |
| 24 | ‘ We work in a very haphazard way , ’ muses Jim , the mixing desk whizz who used to be in , um , Altered Images . |
| 25 | Lawrence , as you must surely know by now , used to be in Felt . |
| 26 | They used to be in they 've all gone over to Luton . |
| 27 | Well in them days everybody used to be in anyway , there was no question . |
| 28 | Oh no because she 'd tell everybody you were used to be in with prat face , prat face ! |
| 29 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
| 30 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |