Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , th that used to be through the main entrance , is n't it , the booking office . |
| 2 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 3 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 4 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 5 | The Grand Tour of Italy was like what National Service used to be to the young men of our country . |
| 6 | but this one seems to of gone haywire , oh does he go , but as I say she 's changed the bedrooms you see , he used to be on the far end |
| 7 | What 's the national flower of England , the , the , the one that used to be on the thruppenny bit ? |
| 8 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 9 | What used to be like the Old Vic has become the vaudeville of Thatcherism Undone . |
| 10 | It used to be in the blue mug , but Marie took that . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll show you the place where the convent used to be in the Middle Ages . ’ |
| 12 | She used to be in the front line at the Windmill . ’ |
| 13 | Jay had no inclination to go through the who are you , what do you do , oh really , gosh my brother-in-law used to be in the same field . |
| 14 | We used to be in the same practice , Peter and I. Now he 's doing his stuff under the desert sun . |
| 15 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |
| 16 | Somehow or other , satire has become a sad and shabby euphemism , much like ‘ continental film ’ used to be in the Fifties . |
| 17 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 18 | It 's only when the peak has been conquered that thoughts turn to the delicious things that used to be in the foil-covered dishes , and the question of how best to prepare the spam . |
| 19 | He used to be in the Special Forces in America , the Delta unit . ’ |
| 20 | Erm er the costing involves we will just say we ought to be for the first fortnight . |
| 21 | ‘ By morning , we ought to be on the same side of the Forth as they are , and facing the open space to the west of the forest . |
| 22 | Theresa Billington Greig , who broke away from the Pankhursts ' suffragette organisation , the Women 's Social and Political Union , over the issue of militant action , was virtually alone in criticising suffragists and suffragettes who regarded the home ‘ as an exemplar of what ought to be in the political world ’ . |
| 23 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 24 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 25 | The fuel consumption ought to be in the high teens/low twenties . |
| 26 | The reply brought Joseph Robinson an unease he could have done without : after all , he ought to be in the commanding position . |