Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway , we started talking about him , they 're doing a survey and er and suddenly it must of been a quarter of an hour later remember the the drinks , I have n't done any drinks ! |
| 2 | Could that be for example because males with resources would want normally to acquire youthful wives , or perhaps it might in other words it could be could n't it that if males provide resources to females that they can use for primal investment , this would then have selective effects on females who will want certain things in order to get erm the investment and one of the things they might want to do is to look youthful . |
| 3 | I reckon it 's done all it can for me now . ’ |
| 4 | And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can . |
| 5 | So it used to be a pond last century or |
| 6 | We 've been paying anyway , so it must of you know . |
| 7 | So it must of been this afternoon when |
| 8 | Mm , that 's marvellous , so it should of been a hundred and forty five . |
| 9 | Yeah , you 're longest chain is a six so it could of been clearly based on hexane . |
| 10 | So it could in theory , but I can not conceive of a case where a doctor , faced with the refusal of a mentally competent 16-year-old to having an abortion , would terminate the pregnancy merely upon the consent of the girl 's parents . |
| 11 | We start our school at eight o'clock , at nine o'clock it used to be prayers in the hall . |
| 12 | In these circumstances each polytechnic evolved as best it could in the various contexts within which it had to operate — for finance , primarily its local authority ; for permission to develop a course , the Regional Advisory Council ; for course approval , the CNAA and other validating bodies . |
| 13 | W that has all been quantified as as best it can through all the various reports and very detailed information that 's been provided for for members . |
| 14 | Not through your mouth , through your nose , anyway it must of righted itself , she 's still full of cold but you know , when you get that achy feeling cos she said it aches |
| 15 | Come off it must of been horrible . |
| 16 | I know there 's an awful lot you can get on the road , but not not like it used to be . |
| 17 | Not like it used to be . |
| 18 | Not like it used to be . |
| 19 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 20 | Supporters of this generally held theory point to the tiger 's thick fur and heavy layer of fat ; also to its need to keep cool in the hot climates in which it now lives by immersing itself in water whenever it can during the heat of the day . |
| 21 | Now it may for the game that if he can cover the square number twelve , he will score more points than if he covers the square with the nine . |
| 22 | Now it may in our statement of case , and it must say that the points that er , er , it 's not the shopping list that you put down there , the cross rail link is vitally important to the economy and money . |
| 23 | Well it would of been easier for a woman to answer would n't it ? |
| 24 | well it might of been on Radio Times , but |
| 25 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 26 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 27 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 28 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 29 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 30 | Right up to the , right over , well it used to be er start two fields off . |