Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cor I should n't of been there I think I should of been the next one along |
| 2 | Oh , dear he 's been dead , ten it must of been the ten , this is eighty two , seventy two , about sixty five I should think about sixty five |
| 3 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 4 | That one must of been the day the boys come up from school |
| 5 | I am Mrs who 's sort of the secretary and books , does the booking for the hall , he could n't get that , anyway it occurred to me afterwards it must of been the grandmother of that girl that bought the erm , cos he kept on talking a Michelle and that 's the girl that bought our suite and I reckon it 's her child 's birthday party , she said erm you know my , you know my son-in-law , I said do I ? |
| 6 | I think that must of been the old boy over the road you know |
| 7 | That might of been the one that was |
| 8 | It was better than the other one , it might of been the seats but I do n't think so because I mean there was so much in this one |
| 9 | then you 've got your two prominent teeth , they could of been the tiger 's two teeth |
| 10 | you know just to wipe him down and everything in the morning , he just grabbed that and I could see this thing tipping and I went oh god no , please , because that could of been the duvet , the duvet covers |
| 11 | The classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of those with AIDS in 1986 . |
| 12 | In 1986 , the classical pneumocystis pneumonia used to be the final event in the disease process in almost half ( 46% ) of AIDS related deaths . |
| 13 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 14 | The most popular size used to be the 4½in ( 108mm ) square tile , still available in a limited number of ranges , but displaced from the No 1 position by larger 152mm ( 6in ) square tiles , which are quicker to fix ( you need only 44 to cover a square metre of wall , compared with 86 of the smaller tiles , and there 's less grouting to do as well ) . |
| 15 | The party 's just begun for Democrats in New Jersey : New Jersey used to be the butt of TV comics . |
| 16 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 17 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 18 | It used to be the normal practice to adapt buildings for different purposes over their lives . |
| 19 | Keith used to be the organist at St Mary 's in Woodstock . |
| 20 | The present drawing-room , which runs the length of the three central ground floor windows and used to be the entrance hall ( until the 1840 addition on the west side was made ) , must have stunned the neighbours with its sumptuousness . |
| 21 | As soon as David moved into my flat , what used to be the dining room was no longer the dining room — it was now full of audio equipment , stylophones , keyboards , amplifiers and huge speakers . |
| 22 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 23 | The development of new fonts used to be the business of companies like Linotype and Monotype , which built typesetters with proprietary technology . |
| 24 | The Tejapaibuls ( banking , brewing , distilling and property ) used to be the most powerful family in Thai business . |
| 25 | THE Cubans have pulled out of what used to be the People 's Republic of the Congo , and is now just the Congo Republic . |
| 26 | IT USED to be the east Prussian city of Königsberg , where the philosopher Immanuel Kant worked and died . |
| 27 | Verbal abuse in the streets , broken windows and ‘ Russians go home ’ graffiti are common , and things came to a head recently in Perleberg , not far from what used to be the West/East German border . |
| 28 | There are over 50,000 Vietnamese in what used to be the GDR brought over in the Eighties as Gastarbeiter ( guest workers ) to do menial factory jobs . |
| 29 | The Mulverins have a farm there now — they used to be the stewards when I was a girl . |
| 30 | And the Argentine embassy used to be the London house of the 7th Duke of Richmond , one of whose great-grandsons was also among the guests : Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox , formerly our ambassador to Spain . |