Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 2 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 3 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 4 | There used to be five men go on a boat . |
| 5 | It used to be six months did n't it , and now it 's gone up |
| 6 | The law is very unclear on what this time limit is — it used to be six years , but some would hold that there is now no limit to the liability . |
| 7 | In the UK there used to be two taxes that tax wealth per se rather than the income that is derived from wealth . |
| 8 | There used to be two shelves in the oven . |
| 9 | There us used to be two sticks . |
| 10 | There used to be two varieties known as the Maroilles and Picardy in France . |
| 11 | Used to be two drawers empty , now it 's full of tapes and I can see they take over . |
| 12 | We used to , twenty eight there used to be two lavatories , madam and gents , you know . |
| 13 | Exactly oh yes that was shared between the men what erm , there used to be two men so they 'd get er share the three pound between them or five pound whatever it was . |
| 14 | ‘ Three main meals every week used to be two pieces of toast each in a bowl , with milk and sugar . ’ |
| 15 | They still work I they 've got there used to be one man er employed to erm give these er boats water , fresh water drinking water |
| 16 | Well we had er , th there always used to be one man aboard the dumb hopper , wh they used to leave there for Monday morning and they used to p him , a man with him . |
| 17 | They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles . |
| 18 | There used to be one woman one end and one woman the other , with something like something similar to the shape as a ladder . |
| 19 | I used to be eleven stone . |
| 20 | I used to be eleven stone , when I was eighteen , nineteen I was eleven stone Hayle . |
| 21 | It 's no , when he used to come here , he used to be fourteen stone odd . |
| 22 | It was only about eleven now , something like that , but he used to be fourteen stone . |
| 23 | Most portable types are around £20 — that 's half the price they used to be 10 years ago . |
| 24 | Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) . |
| 25 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |
| 26 | The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage . |
| 27 | This " issue " could range from — " How do you teach your little sister to tie her shoelaces ? " through — " How will you persuade the Pied Piper to release our children ? " to — " Can you encourage this reluctant old man to give a radio interview about the way the community used to be 60 years ago ? " |
| 28 | SAD Sandy Millington used to be 19 stone and without a date , but now she 's the happiest heavyweight in the world . |
| 29 | I used to be 20 stone and now I 'm 15 stone , which is n't bad . |
| 30 | I used to be ten stone , er all my life I was ten stone seven , eleven stone |