Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb mod] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 2 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 3 | When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them . |
| 4 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 5 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 6 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 7 | I thought it would of been C cos they 're yellow over there i n't they ? |
| 8 | Oh , cheap , oh I thought it would of been about fifty pounds |
| 9 | I thought it might of been a women that was . |
| 10 | nothing went round and unplugged every phone out , wedged every one out cos we thought it might of been a station that 's going down , cos er I 'm saying about the mark one , the old |
| 11 | I thought it might of been Pat sort of at that time , but erm when I looked out I saw a man with a billboard thing |
| 12 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 13 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 14 | Bas said it ought to be called Chuck-up because it 's always being sick . ’ |
| 15 | You were the one who said it ought to be eight o'clock . |
| 16 | People said it used to be lovely . |
| 17 | and she said it could of been |
| 18 | This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah |