Example sentences of "i [vb mod] to be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 2 | You think that because I can sometimes see what 's trivial and what 's important in art I ought to be more virtuous . |
| 3 | I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do . |
| 4 | I used to be right tanned skin . |
| 5 | I used to be quite good at |
| 6 | I used to be quite big and not exactly overweight , but largish . |
| 7 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 8 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 9 | " If people said " Oh no — I do n't want to do that " I used to be so surprised . " |
| 10 | I used to be very good at this , I use to . |
| 11 | It is true there was a lot of housework but I used to be very lonely . |
| 12 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 13 | You were only a baby , I used to be very frightened . |
| 14 | Yet I do n't think I used to be very naughty . |