Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul remembered the Colonel , an old martinet who was one of those who had made it evident that he ought to be at home helping his mother . |
| 2 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 3 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 4 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 5 | Rich Adrian , who looked as if he ought to be at public school , only his parents did n't believe in it , even thought they had pots of cash . |
| 6 | Twelve , thirteen , yeah cos he used to be on ten at the old place and he gets about two thousand more |