Example sentences of "[noun sg] there [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then on the other side there used to be what they called the market . |
| 2 | There is no longer the mass interest in football there used to be . |
| 3 | On the rose analogy there must in fact be violence done to beauty , it must certainly be destroyed before beauty can be made truly beautiful by the addition of scent or verse in their most powerful concentrated forms as perfume or sonnet . |
| 4 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 5 | And er then er then at the at bottom there used to be er a clothes shop . |
| 6 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 7 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 8 | In that peat there used to be deer 's teeth , everything , parts of the jaw , horns , what we were dredging up , then we went further down to erm Downham Reach , that 's just before the Cattoes and we were dredging all green clay . |
| 9 | Some of the surplus there could in fact have been ploughed into a er further extensions of the present residents ' parking , but of course , as has been mentioned here , I welcome the , the modest er extension of the residents ' parking into the other half of |
| 10 | Before the rain there used to be the river running next to a green and a road next to that . |
| 11 | At the end of the reservoir dam there used to be a place called Blackton House which was rather crowded . |
| 12 | it were a , it were a efficient way of er getting dry mm and the next day there would of |
| 13 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 14 | Another night there used to be one , Old Bob , used to do bit of droving . |
| 15 | And then er where the facing the ice rink there used to be a pub called the cricketers , well that 's still there . |
| 16 | That is why the hon. Gentleman timidly teetered round the edge of this at the outset , saying that of course there may in some circumstances be benefits . |
| 17 | At that time , I mean , I have known when my , when I was a dredger and they used t we used to clean the bottom , I have known er mussels on the bottom , used to feed on , be on the side of the ship , good mussels , but of course there used to be cockles , winkles . |
| 18 | And stupid git there should of popped those in there ! |
| 19 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
| 20 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 21 | Action means movement and where there is movement there must at least be a claim that it is movement in a particular direction . |
| 22 | It was his father , Colin Cauldhame , who got the cordite from the ship-breaking yard there used to be down the coast . |
| 23 | There was a a lot of shops on and then as across the road there used to be a Road and there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 24 | There 's quite a lot there used to be quite a contingent worked in ships and of course it 's all stain work and just sprayed now . |
| 25 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 26 | I think the drive next year there ought to be a theme . |
| 27 | And then you know where the foun the water fountain was where the marsh is , there used to every weekend there used to be a er a chip and fish stall there w and hot peas . |
| 28 | Well they usually out out of the er hydrant on the quay cos the hydrant on the quay there used to be a water main a the water main used to go along there and we used to put so much water into the boat and now we come down and used to pump that out and then go back after some more . |
| 29 | And at that particular time there used to be er what do you call it , the fashion was mantlepieces . |
| 30 | They used to In the lace market there used to be factories what used to make lace er and er a lady used to er go and take fetch so much lace out and she used to give it out to people what wanted to do it . |