Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] to be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 2 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 3 | I used to be in school with Byron . |
| 4 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to be in agony all the time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to be in agony all the time , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Well I used I used to be in the kitchen you know . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's coincidental , but I used to be in a band at school called The Frogmen now I 'm in The Crickets , ’ says Alex . |
| 9 | Ah , ah , ah but , ah but you ca n't let me see , you do n't , you do n't remember the war years when I used to be in town while she was out . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 12 | Because I used to be in a mental institution but they said I was well so I 'm allowed out now . |
| 13 | She ought to be in a home ! |
| 14 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 15 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 16 | She ought to be in one or the other . |
| 17 | ‘ You ought to be in the team , ’ she said . |
| 18 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 19 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |
| 20 | She used to be in the front line at the Windmill . ’ |
| 21 | oh yes , oh I know Dora she used to be in our dancing troop |
| 22 | that group she used to be in |
| 23 | she used to be in their Templux . |
| 24 | She used to be in the window and her sister , and I ca n't remember her sister 's name , there was two of them , they , they used to do . |
| 25 | and er , she used to be in the |
| 26 | She used to be in the pantomimes at Windsor . |
| 27 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 28 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 29 | We used to be in the same practice , Peter and I. Now he 's doing his stuff under the desert sun . |
| 30 | Modern relevant and as successful in recruitment of the workforce of the nineties as we used to be in recruiting the workforce of the sixties and seventies . |