Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [prep] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul remembered the Colonel , an old martinet who was one of those who had made it evident that he ought to be at home helping his mother . |
| 2 | Rich Adrian , who looked as if he ought to be at public school , only his parents did n't believe in it , even thought they had pots of cash . |
| 3 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 4 | The reply brought Joseph Robinson an unease he could have done without : after all , he ought to be in the commanding position . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 7 | He was n't sure just how worried he ought to be by Therese Aschmann . |
| 8 | ‘ He used to be at Cowley , ’ said Jack rather reluctantly , not feeling up to casual conversation . |
| 9 | a smallish guy , er , sandy , sandy hair cut short , very stocky , er he used to be up at , he used to be at Glenmore Lodge |
| 10 | He used to be at the Cathedral at rehearsals and growl if some things were out of tune . |
| 11 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 12 | HE 'S mean , he 's moody , he used to be on The Tube and he can play the piano . |
| 13 | Twelve , thirteen , yeah cos he used to be on ten at the old place and he gets about two thousand more |
| 14 | but this one seems to of gone haywire , oh does he go , but as I say she 's changed the bedrooms you see , he used to be on the far end |
| 15 | ‘ He used to be with Delta . |
| 16 | He used to be with Midland Bank , Edinburgh . |
| 17 | He used to be in the board meeting with us , and was referred to as the ‘ sleeping partner ’ by the directors ! ’ |
| 18 | He used to be in the Special Forces in America , the Delta unit . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 20 | " He used to be in the Merchant Navy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | he used to be in the Masterclass teaching the |
| 23 | Did n't he used to be in scrap metal is what Francis was |
| 24 | Like if he was hitting something and he accidentally hit his ha his thumb or his finger he used to be in agony for I mean it used to hurt him for the rest of the day . |
| 25 | He used to be in erm |
| 26 | worked at the erm at The Clwyd and he me , you know , he used to be in there all the time ! |
| 27 | he used to be in it was power to the people |
| 28 | He used to be in |
| 29 | The children were deeply ashamed : ‘ He used to be like that when Luke was here , Rose ; only it was worse . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , he used to be like this |