Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [prep] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to be used to it , but I 'm not . |
| 2 | The fact I used to be married to Ursula is completely irrelevant . ’ |
| 3 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 4 | This is in fact a correct use of the subjunctive mood , which used to be known to writers and sub-editors , and even to publishers and booksellers . |
| 5 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 6 | It could be that nothing can be done , but we ought to be seen to be taking action over this . |
| 7 | And er he was rubbing the coal off his back and was stripped there , we used to be stripped to the waist then . |
| 8 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 9 | In 1959 I started to take an interest in flight data recorders and it appeared to me that they ought to be fitted to large public transport aircraft as a legal requirement . |
| 10 | They ought to be used to marital break-ups . " |
| 11 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 12 | I suppose to be technical it ought to be the er it ought to be referred to as the Franco- German war . |
| 13 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 14 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |