Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its western end is now at Marble Arch , where Tyburn used to be . |
| 2 | But is there something where God used to be ? ’ |
| 3 | You know in the trophy cabinet that Colin used to be in charge of |
| 4 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 5 | What Mr is seeking to do now is to raise a much wider issue , it seems to us , and that is that Skelton ought to be washed-over in its entirety with greenbelt notation . |
| 6 | He insists that God ought to be thanked publicly for his cure , just as any other physician would be in such a case . |
| 7 | She was n't going to tell that fear to anyone though ; she was n't having them prying or saying that Dorothy ought to be glad of a new brother or sister . |
| 8 | Yeah , the fat one 's Donna 's sister and Geraldine used to be best friends with Kelly and she lives in Big Ben . |
| 9 | Do you remember that George and Mildred used to be on telly in comedy ? |
| 10 | Similarly September , October and November used to be the seventh , eighth and ninth months , and March was the first month of the year according to the old Julian calendar instituted in 46BC . |
| 11 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |
| 12 | well he apparently spoke to erm , he had quite a lengthy conversation with Ron Atkinson apparently , cos Atkinson used to be the manager of Tettron did n't he ? |
| 13 | Aileen 's amazed and Harry used to be a teacher , Bobby |
| 14 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 15 | She remembered how close Connor and Rosie used to be ; he had always been very fond of his half-sister — there was no doubt about that . |
| 16 | In fact , Shane ‘ Patrick Number Six ’ MacGowan and Shaun used to be in a group together at school long before The Pogues and the Mondays were formed . |
| 17 | She and Luke used to be lovers , do you remember that ? |
| 18 | But Oliver used to be called Nigel . |
| 19 | I did n't bother to ask whether Safranski ought to be consulted . |
| 20 | At this time when youth is most exultant , this poetry is thumbed night and day ; a page is opened at random , as Virgil used to be , for a word big with fate . |
| 21 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |