Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it used to be so . |
| 2 | Or it used to be the George . |
| 3 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 4 | Soon someone will have to say boo to this goose fattened up for foie gras , and it ought to be someone British . |
| 5 | I 'm not all that religious , I reckon you can be good without goin' to Church , and that , but I know wickedness when I see it , and it ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 6 | The road continued past the cottages so there must be something down there and it ought to be the common itself . |
| 7 | I was stiff and he was supple , and it ought to be the other way round . |
| 8 | But we all have our own ideas about the answers to these big questions and it ought to be left to the discretion of class teachers to allow their pupils to learn about life 's problems in their own time and at their own pace . |
| 9 | relationship , I mean do set up , I mean , if you get into , if you establish relations with me then it 's an ongoing thing , it can be , and it ought to be , so you actually do see the same people over a period of time , and you do establish a modicum of trust , not entire trust , because it 's asking too much for entire trust in all circumstances , but at least there is a certain understanding , particularly with the , on the , on the local basis . |
| 10 | Traditionally Dexters were bred by mating Kerry cows to Dexter bulls , and it used to be known as the Dexter-Kerry . |
| 11 | It originated from the crossing of Shorthorns with the local Mancelle from 1830 and it used to be known as the Durham-Mancelle . |
| 12 | I was at the Embassy then , and it used to be very busy . |
| 13 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 14 | The gates are usually locked at night and it used to be fairly standard practice that people going in and out had to identify themselves . |
| 15 | By my bed there 's a wall and it used to be covered in orange- flowered wallpaper . |
| 16 | and it used to be Christmas Islands where , where literally they , they did the first |
| 17 | it 's forehead cos that 's what people say and it used to be fore head and they change all the time that 's why need to record the words and see how they 're being pronounced . |
| 18 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 19 | And it used to be called 's N's lodging house . |
| 20 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 21 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 22 | And it used to be a most gorgeous smell . |
| 23 | But of course it was lovely with er , er they used to trim it up Christmas time you know and it used to be so lovely . |
| 24 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 25 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 26 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 27 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 28 | He says Fridays are unbeleivable through here and it used to be such a nice quiet town . |
| 29 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 30 | Mm and it used to be all around her mouth and she used to have a bit here sort of one of those old ladies who had whiskers on her chin and it 'd be all white . |