Example sentences of "[subord] i [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 2 | He behaves exactly as if I ought to be ashamed . |
| 3 | And like , Scott told me and thinking about it if I 'd of been in in the frame , frame of mind that I 'm in know for example , I would of sort of pah ! |
| 4 | If I 'd of been there I 'd of flogged that a long while ago and got rid of it |
| 5 | if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer |
| 6 | I 've given it up because I used to be a cheesaholic . |
| 7 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 8 | You wo n't because I used to be |
| 9 | Because I used to be in a mental institution but they said I was well so I 'm allowed out now . |
| 10 | Well publicans actually , because I used to be a publican , and I thought it would be a good idea if I , it 's a good idea to ring people you 've got empathy with . |
| 11 | where did I , I 'm not sure whether I ought to be getting into this but I will . |
| 12 | Before I used to be a real reader ; but here there was not one book in the house . |
| 13 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 14 | ‘ Because I 'm here , Shelley , when I ought to be tucked up at home . |
| 15 | When I used to be involved in the old days , people used to say : ‘ I 'm from Coopers , I 'm from Peats , and this is the way we do it' ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Marianne is me ; Eleanor is me as I ought to be . |
| 18 | Paige loves to play games , and sometimes I 'm not as sharp as I ought to be . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . |
| 21 | She 's not as soft as I used to be … |
| 22 | Not as young as I used to be ! |
| 23 | ‘ Give me a hand son , ’ Bert grunted , ‘ I 'm not as young as I used to be . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm not ashamed of my body as I used to be . |
| 25 | Not as strong as I used to be . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not as strong as I used to be . |
| 27 | ‘ Valencia , Alicante , Gandia — you should see the beach at Gandia , as white as I used to be — ’ |