Example sentences of "[adv] there [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there ought to be an intelligence extradition agreement that all defectors are immediately put on the first aircraft back home . |
| 2 | Perhaps there ought to be a law like that , but there is n't at the moment . |
| 3 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |
| 4 | Perhaps there used to be er erm a lot of hot cross er buns hanging down . |
| 5 | Perhaps there used to be and I lost it . |
| 6 | Yeah , that girl was saying , apparently there used to be glass in front of that there there used to be a glass cabinet attached to the wall there . |
| 7 | so there would of been nothing there for him to go for , you must of been ever so worried following him around watching him . |
| 8 | through her nose , but , so there must of been , she 's alright but her nose is blocked up all the time |
| 9 | Nevertheless there ought to be some control somewhere and we 're getting back to what I think Richard said was the original idea of some kind of development control that is a popular thing in order to be allowed , people ought to make money for the various charities and so on , we ought to try and prevent er certain unjust practices going on and so on . |
| 10 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 11 | You never get any good political meetings now there used to be |
| 12 | So there 's a general agreement for every well there will for me , like , if at any stage you want to talk turkey . |
| 13 | Well there used to be that 's right , with you John , talking about college group just about that time . |
| 14 | Well there used to be one . |
| 15 | Well there used to be a dressing rooms on erm on Road there . |
| 16 | Well there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 17 | Well there used to be a house there . |
| 18 | I think well there used to be three or four picture houses in the town , there 's only one now . |
| 19 | Well there used to be just me but then they 've employed another one and we were so fed up with being on nights that we said look , I 'm afraid we 've had enough of this , you know so she I said to her how about you allocate us each to a ward you see |
| 20 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 21 | You know that 's all right he may , might , alright there may of been a soldier there , but they 've just come from that direction |
| 22 | Merrill 's dark eyebrows lifted a little ; surely there ought to be a reception desk , and someone to attend to visitors ? |
| 23 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 24 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 25 | Well I would have thought that if there was to be some assessment of a reasonable expectation of development proceeding , then there ought to be some assessment of demand , and I have n't seen that yet . |
| 26 | Oh we used to er there used to be er er two rooms downstairs and then there used to be what you used to call er the attic they used to call them in them days . |
| 27 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 28 | Well all that and then there used to be what they used call er net mending but my mother used to do that . |
| 29 | Well then there used to be frames Ooh er as long as a street the room used to be . |
| 30 | Well and then there used to be a stripper it 's a a long thing like that and there and er you 'd put it on . |