Example sentences of "where [pron] [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm some houses used to some houses used to go up some steps and two steps and The one where I used to be and you went you used to go up two steps . |
| 2 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 3 | Indeed a major move of some kind seems to be unavoidable if not inevitable now , but once you decide where you ought to be — and more importantly , with whom you want to be — then the world will be your oyster . |
| 4 | You ought to be behind bars , that 's where you ought to be ! |
| 5 | It was n't really her , just a wax effigy , a place where she used to be . |
| 6 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 7 | The former is an accurate insight to where we are , the latter into where we ought to be . |
| 8 | Regardless of whether it is a tithe or an offering over and above , it is good to analyse the sorts of places where we ought to be giving God 's money . |
| 9 | I think it 's where we ought to be going . |
| 10 | That 's where we ought to be . |
| 11 | 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 . . |
| 12 | Her face tilts to look up into the sky where there ought to be stars . |
| 13 | Three where there used to be me , or Mary and er May , she was the youngest , she was only a baby May and Miss er May was cos she was the youngest . |
| 14 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 15 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 16 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 17 | Er they put the pieces back to where they used to be . |
| 18 | And there used to be a a little croft croft there of long ago , and it 's er it 's all planted now with trees all round about it but I suppose they could still see where they used to be A black smith had stayed there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | in the place where they used to be . |
| 21 | The apostrophe in ‘ Please Respect Owner 's Rights ’ is n't where it ought to be . |
| 22 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 23 | So that is a Jacquard , and that 's an electronic Jacquard , means you can do all sorts of different patterns now , where it used to be limited it 's unlimited now . |
| 24 | Oh yes , oh yes each side and er there , some , a few came round erm where it used to be the old picture house , a few came around up as far as Rushbrooks and erm further up towards erm now then The Central , there 's a school that they used to call it The Central but erm |
| 25 | The air fares have gone up , , cos she 's got relatives there and she said where it used to be about . |
| 26 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 27 | In the words of the headmaster , this is a school which is ‘ more interested in a child 's today than his tomorrow — in where the child is now in relation to where he was , rather than in relation to our expectations of where he ought to be ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And I 've seen Harry Lloyd and er Houdini what they call him you know , where he used to be all strapped in chains and get out of tanks and that . |
| 30 | 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 . |