Example sentences of "[adv] i [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I ought to be able to work out the difference between them . |
| 2 | So I could of been days |
| 3 | " If you do n't want me any longer I ought to be on my way to the hospital . |
| 4 | I , you know , I just I would of been alright if it was a bit more organised I do n't |
| 5 | Yeah well normally I would of been finished would n't I ? |
| 6 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 7 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 8 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 9 | Used to go down , well I used to be down every night , rubbing the salt in this , to make the bacon and I had a smokehouse down the yard where I used to smoke the bacon . |
| 10 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 11 | Sometimes I used to be lonely and unhappy , but now with the baby my life is complete . |
| 12 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 13 | In general I shall recognize what is , not what ought to be ; but certainly I ought to be aware of what I am trying to do , why I want it , how to do it , whether it can be done . |
| 14 | I 'm keen to see a real dialogue with our members , er , how we achieve that I do n't know , we 've got the most enormous diversity of membership as I mentioned in my speech , but the more that we can get a a good dialogue going , and certainly I used to be a member of Health and erm , Disability Group , and remember that it was a very useful meeting point , er , as well as a good arena for developing policy initiatives . |