Example sentences of "he [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 2 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 3 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 4 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 5 | er , so , with that er he never ought to be on the buses , I mean he old Bernard Manning and Charlie what was that , his name , Charlie what ? |
| 6 | he 's out of home now , he never used to be |
| 7 | See , he never used to be in this bloody room ! |