Example sentences of "you [modal v] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you devote several years of your life to a subject , you ought to be reasonably sure that you 'll enjoy it . |
| 2 | Recorder Louis Lawton told him : ‘ You ought to be bitterly ashamed of yourself . |
| 3 | I have no right and you have been very generous , Fred , Uncle Steve and the boys and Gertie ca n't understand why you did n't come here with us , Gert only said this morning that you ought to be here , your place is with us , but do n't think I am not grateful . |
| 4 | You ought to be bloody pleased , this weather . ’ |
| 5 | Although you may be perfectly entitled to take others to task and even issue a number of ultimatums , you ought to be more concerned with plans designed to give you the kind of personal or professional recognition you seek and deserve . |
| 6 | You ought to be very careful with living on your own Don you could break an ankle and you 'd be in real serious trouble |
| 7 | However , with polo you ought to be all right . |
| 8 | Bad news that one , but you used to be pretty friendly , did n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 10 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |
| 11 | You used to be so good at that . |
| 12 | Well you used to be as cute as they were , you used to watch fingers , you did n't get them rattled . |
| 13 | You used to be more fastidious , used to be above servants — ‘ We must not exploit them , ’ you told Hector once — how we laughed over that ! ’ |
| 14 | An important contribution to staying calm is arriving at the interview conscious that you have done everything you can to be thoroughly well prepared . |