Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know though I mean he , he 's , he 's allowed that , he allowed that the fact that they could of been unarmed men and all that but he also condemned three of them on the evidence of this lead which he really should n't of done , he should of left an open verdict on those few cos lead could be transferred to . |
| 2 | I used to be close mates with The head chef of the goal-line restaurant . |
| 3 | ‘ Sally used to be good mates with Zaria , did n't she ? ’ |
| 4 | We used to be good enemies , that great prince and I , but somehow the enmity 's grown cool of late . |
| 5 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 6 | Used to be great friends , before Charles walked out . |
| 7 | maybe a bit younger the fashion used to be winkle-picker shoes . |
| 8 | You used to be more fastidious , used to be above servants — ‘ We must not exploit them , ’ you told Hector once — how we laughed over that ! ’ |
| 9 | The demonstration was organized to coincide with what used to be Armed Forces Day . |
| 10 | Allied-Maples , the present group title of what used to be Allied Carpets , built its reputation on aggressively-priced , high street carpet stores . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Demolition sites used to be wonderful sources of all manner of material . |
| 13 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 14 | ‘ We met at a swimming gala 'cos we used to be competitive swimmers , ’ recalls Sam . |
| 15 | Clean the There used to be huge stocks leading right up to Mapperley Pit , of this slag and stuff , and they sold all that off , and er that was the year that fought and Al broke his thumb on him . |
| 16 | There used to be big families I 've seen down at there were six girls there . |
| 17 | Did those used to be big things ? |
| 18 | Where has those tomatoes gone , if you remember them , they used to be big ones an'all they were |
| 19 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 20 | The process has evolved over the decade with the linking up of what used to be short runs into long , cross-country routes . |
| 21 | In those days , everything at the Arts Theatre used to be short runs . |
| 22 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 23 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 24 | Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street . |
| 25 | We ought to be forwarding names . |
| 26 | So if there are objects called black holes into which things can fall but not get out , there ought to be other objects that things can come out of but not fall into . |
| 27 | This poem uses lots of words that sound as if they ought to be proper words but are not . |
| 28 | That Jurors ought to be duely impannelled and returned and Jurors which passe upon men in tryalls for high Treason ought to be free holders . |