Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] to be in " in BNC.
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| 31 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |
| 32 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 33 | ‘ But no one tells them they ought to be in this dead-end job and liking it . ’ |
| 34 | I think they ought to be in the wild . |
| 35 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 36 | And then they used to get , they used to be in Jackie , he always gathered bags and |
| 37 | Because they used to be in the swamp hours . |
| 38 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 39 | They used to be in that size I , I ca n't remember now , that size used to be I ca n't remember , no . |
| 40 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 41 | The reply brought Joseph Robinson an unease he could have done without : after all , he ought to be in the commanding position . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 44 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 45 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 46 | But that 's his ‘ sic ’ , not mine — I deny all responsibility — so by rights it ought to be in square brackets instead . |
| 47 | ‘ Looks like it ought to be in a museum , ’ Donna said with awe , fingering the inlaid panel on the top . |
| 48 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 49 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 50 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |
| 51 | It used to be in the blue mug , but Marie took that . |
| 52 | It used to be in all the fields then , and he used to take all the kids gathering coltsfoot . |
| 53 | Not like it used to be in our young day . ’ |
| 54 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 55 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 56 | If religion is less significant than it used to be in modern societies , it may be that the emotional issues are resolved too , or that they have found other modes of expression , in the arts and entertainments , and in political movements . |
| 57 | Is the Minister aware that there is a feeling among farmers that the Ministry is being less helpful than it used to be in dealing with compensation claims arising from low flying by jets or helicopters ? |
| 58 | In fact , it used to be in TEN other places . |
| 59 | It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years . |
| 60 | He used to be in the board meeting with us , and was referred to as the ‘ sleeping partner ’ by the directors ! ’ |