Example sentences of "[verb] there [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … And it seemed there ought to be music , so Esther Allan , the music teacher at the school where I was the most reluctant member of the Art Department , got roped in . |
| 2 | Even I can remember there used to be a narrow strip of sand , winding along between the stones , Ruth thought ; it was n't a total waste of time , bringing our buckets and spades here when we were kids . |
| 3 | I was told there used to be a safety barrier there but it kept being knocked down so it was n't of putting er safety barriers up there bollards . |
| 4 | They still work I they 've got there used to be one man er employed to erm give these er boats water , fresh water drinking water |
| 5 | But er yes there , there was er , th that was , wa was the football club was there all along like , you know There used to be , that one what 's still on , on but that used to belong to the L N S then , they had er , a good football team . |
| 6 | You used to have to pay for the stamps , you know there used to be a stamp |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't get characters like there used to be . ’ |
| 8 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 9 | I mean there ought to be many more people on the right side , as it were , rather than the wrong side . |
| 10 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 11 | I mean there used to be a tram , trams running along the Southchurch Road |
| 12 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 13 | S. S. The only bit of crowd trouble we had was the Catholics on the north side of the division and the Orangemen on the south side ; when the 12th of July was approaching there used to be a bit of trouble . |
| 14 | She is privately perturbed , though not entirely unsympathetic one suspects , with recent words of disenchantment from Valda Lake , the 21-year-old Devonian who feels there may in future be more joy , if less money , in being an art student . |
| 15 | She is privately perturbed , though not entirely unsympathetic one suspects , with recent words of disenchantment from Valda Lake , the 21-year-old Devonian who feels there may in future be more joy , if less money , in being an art student . |
| 16 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 17 | I thought there used to be a set of traffic lights in the middle and it 's gone . |
| 18 | Well , if , if there is n't anybody else who wishes to compete with you for the Chair , er , then I think there ought to be a Vice Chair . |
| 19 | I think there ought to be a ‘ filter right ’ as you go into the Banbury Road . ’ |
| 20 | I think there ought to be . ’ |
| 21 | erm the rest of arbitrary proposals maybe considered small comparison in , in financial terms at least but er differ a little if any in , in educational value , that 's two hundred thousand to boost the fourteen and nineteen strategy , er I think there must in the present climate in which we have to regard the vocational content of education as well as the academic . |
| 22 | I said there must of been one |
| 23 | show little justification for a bypass , just the consultants have recommended that options were released there should of taken for public consultation and the improvement should of |
| 24 | Th drawing you see there used to perhaps be some like that there wide and then the er then that narrow well you 'd got to divide them by what they call drawing . |
| 25 | From the , from the pool , see there used to be a , there used to be a pool , near lock gates , that 's where they used to be . |