Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb mod] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I really jiggered myself this morning and I was only out about half an hour , you know , and I used to be able to do a full day ! |
| 2 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 3 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
| 4 | In turn , we press our point and say , ‘ But it 's a cow , and this is a very simple word , and you ought to be able to understand it . ’ |
| 5 | A decent blouse and skirt , or an attractive frock , either outfit worn with a clean straw boater , and she ought to be able to get a job in a store . |
| 6 | Everyone has a right to expect her to be predictable ( however trying things are ) and she ought to be worried and apologetic if she behaves strangely . |
| 7 | But erm I th they are worried certainly , one or two of them are worried , but er some of this equipment is left on , and left on unnecessarily and we ought to be encouraging people to switch off what is n't |
| 8 | It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud . |
| 9 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 10 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 11 | Those are words which could be used to describe the righteousness of Paul ; and they ought to be appropriate for us too . |
| 12 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 13 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 14 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 15 | And it used to be dark brown . |
| 16 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 17 | it 's forehead cos that 's what people say and it used to be fore head and they change all the time that 's why need to record the words and see how they 're being pronounced . |
| 18 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |