Example sentences of "[noun] i [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard , on the odd occasion you something for me Richard I ought to be a lot for you ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 4 | Although it is traumatic , having one 's life turned upside-down like this , discovering I 'm not the person I used to be . |
| 5 | The way I see it — if I had saved the world from a lot of boring belly dancers I ought to be congratulated . |
| 6 | so on a Sunday I used to say right I 'm not gon na take my tablets today because it 's a waste of a tablet if you 're gon na eat like that , and on a Sunday I used to be absolutely exhausted because you take them all the time and they keep you going and then when you stop taking them they 've just , you wind down |
| 7 | You think that because I can sometimes see what 's trivial and what 's important in art I ought to be more virtuous . |
| 8 | IN my previous life I used to be an Eldorado script . |
| 9 | C. I used to be told I was good at English . |
| 10 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 11 | No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it . |
| 12 | The fact I used to be married to Ursula is completely irrelevant . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm improving — in fact I used to be much worse . |