Example sentences of "be [adv] [pron] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are n't you used to walking that far ? |
| 2 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 3 | If , if one turned up with a dirty one they have to buy the beer that 's how they used to be . |
| 4 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 5 | And erm that 's how it used to be so o obviously you had to pay like that but er I can remember the the Coop coming to . |
| 6 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 7 | That 's how it used to be years ago . |
| 8 | That 's how it used to be though |
| 9 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 10 | That 's where they used to , they bought fallen skins and |
| 11 | From the , from the pool , see there used to be a , there used to be a pool , near lock gates , that 's where they used to be . |
| 12 | I think it 's where we ought to be going . |
| 13 | That 's where we ought to be . |
| 14 | I think that we have a very butch attitude , I think the government has a very butch attitude quite honestly , er to , you know , you 've got to er stand up there and help yourself , and I suppose I 'm all for that , but you 've got to have something to help yourself with , and I think that 's where we ought to be aiming and I 'm very glad that the world 's leaders are heading straight in that direction . . |
| 15 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 16 | He used t he used t he used to take about half a dozen bottles of beer on the Saturday morning with him and that 's where he used to be in his , in his galley and he would n't move out that galley all the time . |
| 17 | You ought to be behind bars , that 's where you ought to be ! |
| 18 | He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be . |
| 19 | The increase in the number of prosecutions did not result , however , in a feeling of sympathy for homosexuals , but rather the feeling , as John Wolfenden expressed it , that ‘ nobody had any idea how much of it there was … but there was an impression that it was increasing ; and there was a feeling that if it was then it ought to be curbed ’ . |
| 20 | He saw the place claiming him — this was where he ought to be , to root himself and be rid of those burrs and thorns of fortune , the corruption in his mind and flesh , the evil impulses of his behaviour . |