Example sentences of "but they [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they ought to be encouraged to look over the fence at at er |
| 2 | And I and I do n't know whether they still have the wooden lockers now but they used to be , have to be all scrubbed out every week . |
| 3 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 4 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 5 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 6 | no so it was saying how times have changed , but they used to be very , very stuck up and it showed some of the early programmes and how people used to talk , oh so frightfully posh and so frightfully gorgeous and the words , and , it 's rather pleasant is n't it , really rather nice |