Example sentences of "life [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between your legs the silver comets spiral through the night , I lose myself , he says … he says … how beautiful you are Maggie and how beautiful life ought to be with you . |
| 2 | But even a new house , as freshly conceived as the Dairy at Blaise , in response to a fiction of how life ought to be , has a wayward personality of its own , produced by the subconscious , both individual and collective , of its makers . |
| 3 | It 's like life used to be , there 's real community spirit . " |
| 4 | ‘ How fine your life used to be , runnin' around banging' your drum like it 's |
| 5 | This process not only gives identification and hope for the newcomer , it also reminds the old-timers that they forget at their peril how life used to be . |
| 6 | Museums in Edinburgh often have exhibitions on showing what life used to be like in Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Durkheim , by contrast , maintained a considerably less rosy picture of how social life used to be . |
| 8 | ‘ How fine your life used to be , runnin' around banging' your drum like it 's |