Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 2 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 3 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 4 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 5 | I 've told you all I know and I ought to be getting back — I 've lost two hours of work as it is . ’ |
| 6 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 7 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 8 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |