Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 2 | questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable . |
| 3 | He 'll see me by the fire , leaning against the mantelpiece , and know how things really are ; how they ought to be . |
| 4 | ‘ Kids do n't seem to mind the modern shirts but of course older people remember how they used to be . |
| 5 | If , if one turned up with a dirty one they have to buy the beer that 's how they used to be . |
| 6 | If any of the Lords or great ‘ Herren ’ in England wished to lay out an new garden or remake an old one , Mr. Miller would always show them how it ought to be done . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 8 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 9 | But the right letters are there , even if they 're in the wrong order , so he knows how it ought to be spelled , up to a point . |
| 10 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 11 | And erm that 's how it used to be so o obviously you had to pay like that but er I can remember the the Coop coming to . |
| 12 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 14 | I do n't remember how it used to be between us , Julius . ’ |
| 15 | That 's how it used to be years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ It is sad to see all this emptiness , and remember how it used to be . ’ |
| 17 | That 's how it used to be though |
| 18 | Tears ran down her cheeks as she thought of her first-born , of how he ought to be here , a part of the family circle . |
| 19 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
| 20 | Ah , ah , ah but , ah but you ca n't let me see , you do n't , you do n't remember the war years when I used to be in town while she was out . |
| 21 | And erm some houses used to some houses used to go up some steps and two steps and The one where I used to be and you went you used to go up two steps . |
| 22 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 23 | ‘ And I can only say that the Master will not like it if his breakfast and lunch do not arrive on time , because he serves his maid coffee , engages her in chit-chat , and encourages her to read disreputable papers when she ought to be blackleading the range , or scrubbing the kitchen floor . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed a major move of some kind seems to be unavoidable if not inevitable now , but once you decide where you ought to be — and more importantly , with whom you want to be — then the world will be your oyster . |
| 25 | You ought to be behind bars , that 's where you ought to be ! |
| 26 | It was n't really her , just a wax effigy , a place where she used to be . |
| 27 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 28 | The former is an accurate insight to where we are , the latter into where we ought to be . |
| 29 | Regardless of whether it is a tithe or an offering over and above , it is good to analyse the sorts of places where we ought to be giving God 's money . |
| 30 | I think it 's where we ought to be going . |