Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |
| 2 | ‘ Where you ought to be , Me1li . |
| 3 | Where we used to b boil the water . |
| 4 | that 's right where we used to perhaps |
| 5 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 11 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 12 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 13 | Where they used to ma , yes . |
| 14 | The draft Structure Plan Review will assess the requirement for new housing land and decide , in general terms , where it ought to be located . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 17 | I do n't care , Morrissey is still wonderful and I still love him as much , if not more than I used to . |
| 18 | Now , I treat athletics more as a hobby than I used to . ’ |
| 19 | I suppose it 's something to do with me being happy , being married , knowing where I am : I can see things more clearly now than I used to . |
| 20 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 21 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 22 | But if anybody has got a real problem I get more emotionally involved than I used to . |
| 23 | I still miss my favourite sister , who died over twenty years ago , but of course I think of her much less than I used to . |
| 24 | Less than I used to . |
| 25 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 26 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 27 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 28 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 29 | I 'm going to adopt the editorial " we " and you may then pay more attention than you would to the burblings of a recent graduate . |
| 30 | If your eyes are always on your party political opponent , or ministerial colleague and rival , you may be paying less attention than you ought to what Hollywood , IBM and Fujitsu are doing . |