Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it must of been this afternoon when |
| 2 | It must of enlightened them on what the scriptures meant , by the sacred secret , cos before it must of been some kind of weird mystery to them |
| 3 | it 's sort of in relation to it , there must of been some reason why he said that to take them to , hear more to other people |
| 4 | there must of been some relation problem with each other , the earlier erm thing |
| 5 | That must of been some time ago |
| 6 | The assumption of this explanation is , of course , that there used to be many couples who wanted a divorce but could not have one because their case was not covered by any legislation . |
| 7 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 8 | It used to be that Opposition spokesmen quoted figures that were four years out of date , but the hon. Gentleman depends on statistics that go back 10 years . |
| 9 | When there used to be all houses round there , there used to be a fish shop there as well . |
| 10 | Where the bus , and you know where the buses park and everything , that used to be all sidings right under that bridge that 's got the weight limit on |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well when they 've got this here lace , there used to be all pins at the side of this er of these er frames . |
| 13 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 14 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 15 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 16 | I think that 's where they got the idea and they used to be all leather , thigh boots . |
| 17 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 18 | There used to be another tree , I believe , known as Robin Hood 's Larder … |
| 19 | Bottom part of Harlow , down by the Fire Station where do they , there used to be another doctor had a surgery down there Dr |
| 20 | is a is a place where ooh there , there used to be any number of Welsh chapels |
| 21 | Did n't there used to be a cottage on that roadside where them big tanks is , did n't there used to be some cottages . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 25 | A small lodge house that used to be some sort of appendage of Burnage Court is currently for sale through Hamptons . |
| 26 | There was a little post office there and there used to be some shop on there . |
| 27 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 28 | Always used to be half term , but Milvia it can only be half an hour ! |
| 29 | The Tory nightmare ought to be that Labour revamps itself yet again and becomes truly a centrist democrat party , committed to sound money , tight budgets , and moderate taxation . |
| 30 | you know I just keep thinking the stuff 's on the way round and there ought to be some way of doing it , but I , you know , I mean maybe Brian 's idea of the , the , the organizations in the ci ci but that does n't help me you know with a , with a |