Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |
| 2 | ‘ I really ought to be going , ’ said Penelope , ‘ what with having a long journey and work tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I really ought to be more careful . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 5 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |
| 6 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes — I never used to be tidy , you know , but since the children grew up I 'm less able to tolerate mess — and Christmas is so messy ! ’ |
| 8 | You always used to be a lot quicker than this , Jessamy . ’ |
| 9 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 10 | She really ought to be back by now . ’ |
| 11 | She really ought to be thinking of work instead of calling Fernando Serra 's bluff . |
| 12 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 13 | And another thing , you really ought to be venturing further afield ; travelling or doing something more challenging now and therefore perhaps you need a gentle prod to remind you that life is only , after all , what you make it . |
| 14 | You really ought to be wearing a ring , Lucinda . |
| 15 | One megabyte is totally inadequate for running Windows ( version 3.1 requires a minimum of 2Mb ) and you really ought to be thinking about slamming in the RAM . |
| 16 | doing it Roger is that we sit here and we say to our clients , ah but you really ought to be coming to us because we 're railway experts . |
| 17 | You even used to be able to bring them here with you . |
| 18 | She never used to be tired . |
| 19 | She felt like screaming that she never used to be like that . |
| 20 | YOU NEVER USED TO BE SO SELF-CRITICAL , CAPTAIN . |
| 21 | And you were n't you see you actually used to be interesting when you were talking and sit complete miserable bastard like Patrick does . |
| 22 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
| 23 | We all used to be together on New Year 's Eve , did n't we , Dad ? ’ |
| 24 | And it 's my opinion we both ought to be glad for that . ’ |
| 25 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 26 | We really ought to be rehearsing this stuff , well finalising the scripts after half term . |
| 27 | We really ought to be going to some to truss . |
| 28 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 29 | But a lot of people would say of course that it is of such importance , that we really ought to be up to date with exactly what 's going on , after all this is happening on our behalf . |
| 30 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |