Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 3 | I do n't remember how it used to be between us , Julius . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , th that used to be through the main entrance , is n't it , the booking office . |
| 5 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
| 6 | ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything . |
| 7 | There used to be about , a lot of them , there used to be a whole floor , er |
| 8 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 9 | It too easily discards the spiritual dimension of human experience as attributable to some kind of personal or social pathology and it creates a taboo a bit like the one there used to be about sex . |
| 10 | Course i e , it 's very expensive now but it it only used to be about one and six a pound right up to the end of the war and it 's now two pounds a pound and |
| 11 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 12 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 13 | No one with half an eye on current trends is mentioning that his main claim to fame used to be as Susan Sarandon 's toy boy . |
| 14 | Of course that is just what it used to be for before the invasion of the television and the mobile office . |
| 15 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 16 | It used to be for really petty things like not standing up , or shouting out the window , running up the dinner queue and pushing it . |
| 17 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 18 | They used to be for a while . |
| 19 | The Grand Tour of Italy was like what National Service used to be to the young men of our country . |
| 20 | Other claims used to be to a maximum of £5000 . |
| 21 | Built in 1903 it has bronze and marble panels in an Art Nouveau style depicting the friars from the monastery that used to be on the site . |
| 22 | It 's that picture of a cat that used to be on Marie 's wall . |
| 23 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 24 | So it hardly matters that Connery lives mostly in Marbella , that his residence for tax purposes , used to be on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and is now an apartment in Monte Carlo , although he still has the place in the Bahamas . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to be on the school lunch programme , you used to have free lunch in the schools , you know , then they wiped that out . |
| 26 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 27 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 28 | And we used to do these er pictures that u used to be on er grey and blue paper and we used to , with white paint we used to make a sort of anything there and then with erm charcoal sticks we used to draw on it . |
| 29 | And then then there used to be on Boulevard . |
| 30 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |