Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , it 's , I could of brought people through , I should of been able
2 no , it were n't , should n't of been on fire , but it should of been warmish
3 Twenty pounds from Aunty Mary , I know , she should of been generous , should n't she ?
4 that Julia wanted money more , more money , I mean he worked every hour that god gave at , so his money must of been decent , had to be
5 And then to go home , tired and cold in an empty place , and cold and must of been terrible !
6 I did n't think it was very wobbly , but she said she swallowed it and there 's a load of blood at the ramp at school so , so I said that must of been nice for the teachers , mind , but the other one I found
7 that 's it , I was , I was , I must of been addictive to the Coke
8 Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past ,
9 So she must of been good .
10 Must of been desperate !
11 Mind way it 's putting the garden out there it never died off , must of been wild or something .
12 They must of been mad .
13 Come off it must of been horrible .
14 It must be , it must of been tragic for her really
15 you must of been dead to the world , what with working
16 I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal .
17 bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day
18 they must of been red
19 Must of been clean mud , I du n no !
20 some local paper or even , might of been Daily Express or summat like that you see
21 she 'll of been married
22 She did , if she 'd of been married I think , she was , she was n't
23 Yeah well I remember that then just sleep overcame me and I , I closed me eyes and the next thing I knew John says well I wished you 'd of been awake to see that
24 And I , I , I mean I 've r now that we , Walsall 's got their own department I wish I 'd of kept on to it , it 'd of been interesting .
25 Yeah , that 'd of been lovely !
26 All you needed was your soap and your shampoo and you 'd of been alright !
27 I went to change me poll tax and er I says to her , I says , I should be court to Monday oh she says you 've got a fifteen pound court thing , I says aye , she says oh well that 's fifteen pound , I says it 's not cos I 'm not paying it I says I 'm not paying the fifteen pound to the court , I says , I says how come last year I did n't pay right round to February last year I said and yet I , your last payment 's next month , you know , she said oh well they 're stricter this year she says , she , if you 'd pay the half year you 'd of been alright
28 Could of been nice as well though !
29 and it jerked me , but she said it 's a muscle been pulled and it 's , it keeps spasm so she said er , could of been nasty , said I dare n't tell him , cos I says if I tell him it was his fault , I says he 'll never give me another ride , it 's again Thursday night coming back , and his car , you know the car kept , bump , bump , bump , bump , bump
30 I do n't know but he could of been ill , he could , it could of been that he could n't take any more you know that but Margaret was terri terribly bitter about him Margaret not coming , but he could , he could n't stand it
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