Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |
| 2 | She tried , saying : ‘ On the other hand , perhaps he ought to be told . |
| 3 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 4 | Well , it turned out he used to be a ‘ pretty successful writer ’ , but then he found he was just getting into ‘ things that were too weird . ’ |
| 5 | well he used to be right out here Frank did n't he ? |
| 6 | Well he used to be he owns the other factory now . |
| 7 | Did n't he used to be in scrap metal is what Francis was |
| 8 | He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be . |
| 9 | He used to be a a driver , a driver , and then he used to be a driving supervisor and now he 's in like , in traffic now . |
| 10 | Tears ran down her cheeks as she thought of her first-born , of how he ought to be here , a part of the family circle . |
| 11 | In the words of the headmaster , this is a school which is ‘ more interested in a child 's today than his tomorrow — in where the child is now in relation to where he was , rather than in relation to our expectations of where he ought to be ’ . |
| 12 | He saw the place claiming him — this was where he ought to be , to root himself and be rid of those burrs and thorns of fortune , the corruption in his mind and flesh , the evil impulses of his behaviour . |
| 13 | And I 've seen Harry Lloyd and er Houdini what they call him you know , where he used to be all strapped in chains and get out of tanks and that . |
| 14 | He used t he used t he used to take about half a dozen bottles of beer on the Saturday morning with him and that 's where he used to be in his , in his galley and he would n't move out that galley all the time . |