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Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 'm an actress , or I used to be .
2	‘ I 'm a model , or I used to be until I married .
3	‘ I work out with weights — or I used to .
4	Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be .
5	‘ Where you ought to be , Me1li .
6	You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief .
7	These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all .
8	Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons .
9	Where we used to b boil the water .
10	that 's right where we used to perhaps
11	where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now
12	So can you see why we 're looking at perhaps a , a , or we ought to be considering a figure a big higher than three hundred thousand .
13	It was in their interests to make work for the dental profession and sell vitamin C , not to let it get about that simply by keeping their hands where they ought to be young people could have healthy teeth and gums for life .
14	This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged .
15	Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ?
16	Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat
17	Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . "
18	Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time .
19	And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house !
20	Where they used to ma , yes .
21	Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir .
22	The draft Structure Plan Review will assess the requirement for new housing land and decide , in general terms , where it ought to be located .
23	There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’
24	Or it used to be so .
25	Or it used to be the George .
26	Or it used to be until I got that letter .
27	Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none .
28	I found myself thinking affectionately that I ought to be straightforward with him ; the English liked that .
29	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 .
30	Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms .