Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that makes a kind of convenient break actually , because what I wanted to start on er then was things which really perhaps ought to be postponed till , till next . |
| 2 | always used to be known as Dolly . |
| 3 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |
| 4 | He told Miss Smart the girls she drilled so magnificently ought to be included in the Royal Tournament at Earl 's Court , he , for one , being heartily sick of sailors dismantling and reassembling guns . |
| 5 | The pharmacien came out from behind his counter , sat her down , removed her sandal with the tenderness of a foot-fetishist , examined her heel , cleaned it with a piece of gauze , stood up , turned to me gravely , as if there were something which really ought to be kept from my wife , and quietly explained , ‘ That , Monsieur , is a blister . ’ |
| 6 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 7 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |
| 8 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 9 | The pedant , persistent as ever , could insist that Pulex irritans is the proper term for a flea and it therefore ought to be provided for those who understand it . |