Example sentences of "[verb] [ex0] [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … And it seemed there ought to be music , so Esther Allan , the music teacher at the school where I was the most reluctant member of the Art Department , got roped in . |
| 2 | Even I can remember there used to be a narrow strip of sand , winding along between the stones , Ruth thought ; it was n't a total waste of time , bringing our buckets and spades here when we were kids . |
| 3 | I was told there used to be a safety barrier there but it kept being knocked down so it was n't of putting er safety barriers up there bollards . |
| 4 | They still work I they 've got there used to be one man er employed to erm give these er boats water , fresh water drinking water |
| 5 | But er yes there , there was er , th that was , wa was the football club was there all along like , you know There used to be , that one what 's still on , on but that used to belong to the L N S then , they had er , a good football team . |
| 6 | You used to have to pay for the stamps , you know there used to be a stamp |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't get characters like there used to be . ’ |
| 8 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 9 | I mean there ought to be many more people on the right side , as it were , rather than the wrong side . |
| 10 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 11 | I mean there used to be a tram , trams running along the Southchurch Road |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | S. S. The only bit of crowd trouble we had was the Catholics on the north side of the division and the Orangemen on the south side ; when the 12th of July was approaching there used to be a bit of trouble . |
| 14 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 15 | I thought there used to be a set of traffic lights in the middle and it 's gone . |
| 16 | Well , if , if there is n't anybody else who wishes to compete with you for the Chair , er , then I think there ought to be a Vice Chair . |
| 17 | I think there ought to be a ‘ filter right ’ as you go into the Banbury Road . ’ |
| 18 | I think there ought to be . ’ |
| 19 | I said there must of been one |
| 20 | From the , from the pool , see there used to be a , there used to be a pool , near lock gates , that 's where they used to be . |