Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to be the one to go . |
| 2 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 3 | I used to be the drummer for The Merton Parkas . |
| 4 | When I was n't playing cricket for my school , I used to be the scorer for a small village club , Alwington . |
| 5 | Some years ago an advertisement aroused great wrath among the touchier members of the library profession : " I used to be the mainstay of the public library until I tried … " ( out of deference to the protesters , the brand name of the vodka in question is here suppressed ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to be the black sheep of the family , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I used to be the adminstrator of the Canadian Tuberculosis Hospital in Quang Ngai . |
| 8 | Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none . |
| 9 | Our most successful player at Peachtree was Eoghan O'Connell , a young Irishman who has a future which ought to be the equal of Claydon 's . |
| 10 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 11 | He was sent on teaching practice to Cowbridge Grammar School , one of those small country grammar schools which used to be the glory of Wales . |
| 12 | Across from the church are the Municipal Museum and Aquarium , in a fine old Portuguese house which used to be the home of the Count of Ribeiro Real . |
| 13 | It is a handsome conversion and gives a catholic flavour to a street which used to be the exclusive preserve of contemporary Western art . |
| 14 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 15 | They 'd bought this enormous house , Four Winds , which used to be the local manor or something . |
| 16 | We spent a morning going round the Coaltown museum which gave an excellent presentation of the coal-mining industry which used to be the life-blood of the Coast . |
| 17 | The water source is a constant trickle in a well dug beneath what is now the living room but which used to be the Pump room . |
| 18 | There was a man a Mr down in the North End Leslie who used to be the apprentice he took |
| 19 | And Lazlo Heltai , who used to be the Director of Music at the university , still is the Director of the Brighton Festival Chorus . |
| 20 | So three o'clock Friday then we ought to be the lights before I suppose . |
| 21 | But the end of something ought to be the start of something else , and I ca n't yet feel what 's meant to be beginning . |
| 22 | I mean you u some of them used to be the growth roll up , you know the |
| 23 | And then there used to be the Hippodrome and the Empire . |
| 24 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 25 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 26 | Before the rain there used to be the river running next to a green and a road next to that . |
| 27 | Mm , there used to be the Cardoma almost opposite here , it was an enormous cafe downstairs and an upstairs , and when that went there was nothing to replace it |
| 28 | Now that 's the entrance and there is where the er there used to be the erm er wagon turntable out here , and the entrance for the trucks was er through that doorway . |
| 29 | The Mulverins have a farm there now — they used to be the stewards when I was a girl . |
| 30 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |