Example sentences of "he [vb mod] to be [prep] [noun] " 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 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 3 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 4 | He was n't sure just how worried he ought to be by Therese Aschmann . |
| 5 | ‘ He used to be at Cowley , ’ said Jack rather reluctantly , not feeling up to casual conversation . |
| 6 | a smallish guy , er , sandy , sandy hair cut short , very stocky , er he used to be up at , he used to be at Glenmore Lodge |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He used to be with Delta . |
| 9 | He used to be with Midland Bank , Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Did n't he used to be in scrap metal is what Francis was |
| 11 | Like if he was hitting something and he accidentally hit his ha his thumb or his finger he used to be in agony for I mean it used to hurt him for the rest of the day . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |