Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure . |
| 2 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |
| 3 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 4 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 5 | It is triable summarily so that now what used to be rape may be prosecuted as a summary offence punishable with a maximum of six months ’ imprisonment or a fine of not more than $500 . |
| 6 | But now , I think , there are signs that er things are beginning to pick up , certainly we 're being told things are beginning to pick up and I think probably as an office generally , we 're experiencing that upturn , although er every time we get some special job in , suddenly we think we are at the end of a recession and perhaps , you know , it 's the next job that really we ought to be looking to . |
| 7 | However , it is undeniably the case that the statute is less clear and concise than ideally it ought to be . |
| 8 | Michael Lawrence says that the Government accepts there is a problem and that ideally something ought to be done about it : ‘ It 's now just a question of what can be afforded ’ . |
| 9 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 10 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 11 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 12 | And then we used to be playing top , we 'd a top right round the village , see how far we could go . |
| 13 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 14 | from there and now course they got shipped out and then they used to be a ship as well , used to take it to sea called the |
| 15 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 16 | Oh we used to er there used to be er er two rooms downstairs and then there used to be what you used to call er the attic they used to call them in them days . |
| 17 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 18 | Well all that and then there used to be what they used call er net mending but my mother used to do that . |
| 19 | Well and then there used to be a stripper it 's a a long thing like that and there and er you 'd put it on . |
| 20 | And then there used to be erm Mrs her name was , used to keep her little shop at bottom of the yard . |
| 21 | And then there used to be the Hippodrome and the Empire . |
| 22 | And er and then there used to be er |
| 23 | They 're like that , and then they 've got a shuttlecock the shuttlecock used to er have er like a a cork thing and then there used to be feathers round . |
| 24 | Yes there used to be her son , and there used to be me , and there used to be a a girl name Edith right , and there used to be her sister , Ethel right , and then there used to be another young girl named Clara . |
| 25 | And then there used to be talking about and er if you passed by them . |
| 26 | There was Pat , he swept chimleys , er and then there used to be an old fellow come , he used to mend , mend dishes you ken , what you call a china faker . |
| 27 | And then there used to be old Tom and Mary . |
| 28 | Oh and then there used to be another old fellow come here , they called him . |
| 29 | But the the regular men were getting more money than but er And then there used to be men down there , storing the slate , regular men on the outside , my father was one of them . |
| 30 | He used to be a a driver , a driver , and then he used to be a driving supervisor and now he 's in like , in traffic now . |