Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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1 | " So he darned well ought to be , " replied Bigwig , " the great dandy " for by their standards , Strawberry was scrupulously clean and fastidious . |
2 | Round here used to be where working men lived . |
3 | there 's two files at the end which I thought maybe ought to be at the beginning . |
4 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
5 | He did really ought to be audited , and sorry there are other people as well , he is by far the most extreme person , but then there will be other people as well . . |
6 | Because of your health , pet , they 're putting us on the priority list , say we did n't ought to be below-ground , nor too high . |
7 | So , but I , I think he thought Ken meant that he was like superior and he did n't ought to be doing that sort of job . |
8 | It did n't used to be . |
9 | I did n't used to be one to leave dreams be . |
10 | ‘ They did n't used to be like this . |
11 | Did n't used to be there though did it ? |
12 | And er er it did n't used to be erm white barge-boarding , er nor white erm fencing . |
13 | Better access for Eastern Europe 's farm exports therefore ought to be manageable , even if losers went uncompensated . |