Example sentences of "[verb] i [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't think I would of been very pleased if you 'd put a go in the room for an hour ! |
| 2 | Yet I do n't think I used to be very naughty . |
| 3 | You do n't want I used to be like that |
| 4 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 5 | Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well |
| 6 | Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past , |
| 7 | I remember I used to be a horror . ’ |
| 8 | I know I ought to be different , but there it is . |
| 9 | And way back , you know I used to be a hair stylist myself . |
| 10 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 11 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I ought to be making tracks as well , ’ said the classics don . |
| 13 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 14 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel I ought to be making it . ’ |
| 16 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 17 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 18 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 19 | It was so funny — as I walked along , rather disconsolate in the rain , at midday , I suddenly recollected it was Mayday , & knowing I ought to be bright & rejoicing I forthwith was so , at least for a time . |
| 20 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 21 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 22 | Look , thanks for rescuing me , but if you do n't mind I think I ought to be going . |
| 23 | Erm I think I ought to be brief on this . |
| 24 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 25 | er , you know proper algebra and all that kind of stuff and it , and it was , I think I would of been better if I had of gone to Our Ladies cos I do n't |
| 26 | Cor I should n't of been there I think I should of been the next one along |
| 27 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 28 | What did you say I ought to be ? ’ |