Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she never slept and our Edmond used to be worn out |
| 2 | I REMEMBER the innocent days back when Club Dog used to be run out of a scout hut in Wood Green . |
| 3 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 4 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 5 | It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity — it used to be sloshed around . |
| 6 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 7 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 8 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 9 | But with the sheep used to hang them whole in the shop like , like these are now , yeah and the pigs used to be chopped down . |
| 10 | The countryside all around , and the woods of the Buskett Gardens , and the bastions around Mdina , used to be lit up by torch-lights and bonfires . |
| 11 | The results of the race used to be worked out in the Jay dining-room , with a lot of people doing a lot of mental arithmetic . |
| 12 | Long freight trains used to be lined up in the Trench Yard awaiting collection by British Rail going East to Stafford and West to Wellington . |
| 13 | ‘ After the breed of sheep — huge creatures — that used to be bred around here . ’ |
| 14 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 15 | They used to be fetched up when the channel was being dredged , and drift ashore . |
| 16 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 17 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 18 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 19 | lay on for them and erm also of course erm , I know , people like erm Mr and Mr they used to be picked up by er , by some chaps in a jeep or Army truck . |
| 20 | Where we were dru , the spi , the Espinear used to be drummed down for about five , six , seven years . |
| 21 | Marie passed the old chalets , neglected and boarded up now , their paint peeling , their woodwork rotting away , that used to be rented out to holidaymakers . |
| 22 | One boy of nine used to be let out to spend weekends with a bachelor priest . |
| 23 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
| 24 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 25 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |
| 26 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 27 | ‘ … ought to be locked up … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ within the hearing or sight of a person ’ This can be proved by observing the reactions of passers-by or persons to whom the insults etc. were directed , e.g. ‘ I saw two old ladies hurry past looking disgusted and saying , ‘ You ought to be locked up ’ ' . |
| 29 | He received visits in the asylum , and Boswell reports that on one occasion , probably in 1760 , Dr Johnson thought Smart ought to be locked up ; his opinion varied , as no doubt did Smart 's condition , from time to time . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , you cheeky cuss , ’ she said , ‘ I might be poor and 'omeless , but I 'm respectable , I am , and I ai n't goin' to listen to you talkin' about my bottom , you ought to be locked up for even mentioning it . ’ |