Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 2 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So many famous families used to be living here . |
| 5 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And we used to be selling them at midnight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said never been and I used to be going like this to you . |
| 10 | Yeah and she used to be hammering on the door , twenty past five you know yeah |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 13 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 14 | Her used to be working on the roads , see , quarrying , work on the roads , crack stones . ’ |
| 15 | He used to be working fourteen hours a day in the shipyards of the Loire . |
| 16 | Margaret used to be working she worked nights as well |
| 17 | And then we used to be playing top , we 'd a top right round the village , see how far we could go . |
| 18 | Yeah , he was on it some time and Charles and they 'd put him back on the ward becau when John last saw him , cos he , John was visiting er , used to be having treatment or something at |
| 19 | Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces . |
| 20 | Peter was the test pilot used to be testing the Harvards over Walsall , and the engines used to make noises like angry wasps which was Walsall people became to know very well . |
| 21 | Cos there 's some , they used to be carrying timber down the dock all one length and what already slung , already stacked for 'em and the way it cost , the way it go put the wires on me for sure now and there ai n't much to let now . |
| 22 | And then there used to be talking about and er if you passed by them . |
| 23 | Not just sales , so it should n't just be the appointments in your diary , and a lot of you will not used to be keeping a diary as well . |
| 24 | Yes , yeah there used there used to be one go down , another one used to be coming up . |
| 25 | And they used to be coming erm about the end of September through the beginning of November , they used to come to the beach from different directions , during that time . |
| 26 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 27 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 28 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 29 | ‘ You ought to be listening to the grass roots and saying : ‘ Look , we 've started doing the tests , we 've found they are n't working as they should . |
| 30 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |