Example sentences of "[vb mod] to [be] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't used to be one to leave dreams be . |
| 2 | Well there used to be one . |
| 3 | Yes , yeah there used there used to be one go down , another one used to be coming up . |
| 4 | Lord for instance and er there used to be one from this way , Portmadoc somewhere , the place was the place was called . |
| 5 | I 've normally caught a train that 's gone thro straight through , there used to wo I do n't know whether there still is but there always used to be one . |
| 6 | Used to be one about |
| 7 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 8 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 9 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 10 | Wonderful trees , there 's one that that used to be something called |
| 11 | Yeah , mine , mine used to be something like quarter to twelve , did n't it , quarter to twelve till three , and then they decided to change round , it used to be quarter to twelve to six , did n't it ? |
| 12 | There used to be plenty of job security though now even those on contracts can be pressurised to leave . |
| 13 | ‘ There used to be lots of special trains . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , there ought to be somebody to bring him soup and toast and cooling drinks . |
| 15 | There ought to be something very distinctive about the theory that describes the universe . |
| 16 | There ought to be something special and simple about the theory of everything . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose her autumn social life will be starting , ’ he said absently , ‘ and I suppose the note of my October magazine letter ought to be something about the autumn and winter social activities , ’ he went on , taking up his pen again . |
| 18 | It may not be a legal partnership , but it ought to be one ethically . |
| 19 | Before one can start arguing about how strong materials ought to be one should be able to measure how strong they actually are . |
| 20 | Right , that 's fine , well I , that would be very good if there was a group at the coll at the coll at the college , there ought to be one at the college |
| 21 | Look , too , for a memorandum of a subsequent conveyance , etc , endorsed on a probate or letters of administration ; if there 's none , but there ought to be one , make a requisition on the point , such as : The abstract does not reveal a memorandum of the conveyance of endorsed on the probate dated . |
| 22 | There ought to be one for project video erm we ca n't do that until we can show a book . |
| 23 | The winners will be those with the most innovative ideas , especially for getting unemployed people work — so there ought to be plenty of scope fro an input from the ES . |
| 24 | Soon someone will have to say boo to this goose fattened up for foie gras , and it ought to be someone British . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's plenty of room up here for me to stay quite comfortably and there ought to be someone on hand to milk the cows , however bad the weather . ’ |
| 26 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |