Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | if , if , if it was three quarters water er human 's must of been in the water to start with |
| 2 | it 's not sticky and if you get it all over you shows how cold it must of been in the night , the butter wo n't spread |
| 3 | they must of been in the middle of it . |
| 4 | , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally |
| 5 | Yes , we had the Labour candidate knocking on our door yesterday and I think John must of been in a right foul mood , cos he he says come in and talk to me |
| 6 | Must of been in the side pocket . |
| 7 | Yeah , yeah , but every case is different , you do n't , I mean she might of been in some car accident or something like that you see , might n't she ? |
| 8 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 9 | It was I thought you 'd of been in town all morning , no . |
| 10 | And like , Scott told me and thinking about it if I 'd of been in in the frame , frame of mind that I 'm in know for example , I would of sort of pah ! |
| 11 | because this is , I mean I did n't hear the dogs last night , only the kid , but I mean nevertheless the day before if you 'd of been in there , so but , but the kitchen can be done , toilet can be done |
| 12 | We could of been in that could , we could of been in er Emmerdale Farm |
| 13 | We could of been in that could , we could of been in er Emmerdale Farm |
| 14 | Jay had no inclination to go through the who are you , what do you do , oh really , gosh my brother-in-law used to be in the same field . |
| 15 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 16 | It used to be in the blue mug , but Marie took that . |
| 17 | Yes , he says , he does meet fellow Vietnamese workers who used to be in Germany but , no , they do not discuss politics . |
| 18 | They dispose of ‘ all the nice furniture that used to be in the saloon and then the candelabra ’ . |
| 19 | I used to be in school with Byron . |
| 20 | I 'll have a look in the loft , shall I , for those little Kate Greenaway pictures that used to be in Hilary 's room ? |
| 21 | It used to be in all the fields then , and he used to take all the kids gathering coltsfoot . |
| 22 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 23 | It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam . |
| 24 | The main home of the Irish polled cattle used to be in the north west . |
| 25 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 26 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 27 | Not like it used to be in our young day . ’ |
| 28 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 29 | One used to be in Bristol 's Cortinas , the other one was really called Greg and studied Physics and Astronomy at University College London . |
| 30 | Mention ‘ Shaw ’ to a young person now , and they might just remember Martin , who used to be in The Professionals . |