Example sentences of "he [vb mod] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He ought to be quite an interesting young man . ’ |
| 3 | And he ought to be terribly concerned about the acid rain that 's falling on Europe as well as what 's happening |
| 4 | I think she thinks he ought to be totally angelic , you know |
| 5 | He wondered if he ought to be very formal . |
| 6 | He used to be pretty good , as I remember . ’ |
| 7 | Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information . |
| 8 | a smallish guy , er , sandy , sandy hair cut short , very stocky , er he used to be up at , he used to be at Glenmore Lodge |
| 9 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 10 | St Colum seems to have attracted legends around himself wherever he went , for as Columba he used to be well known to every Scottish schoolboy for converting the King of the Picts , banishing water horses and other praiseworthy acts . |
| 11 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 12 | He used to be quite |
| 13 | Well you know he used to be quite good looking when he was younger but now he 's really ugly . |
| 14 | Ah , oh , oh there 's a change , you 're lucky , he used to be home talking to Sue oh excuse me you wan na break free |
| 15 | Another thing we had a barney with Peter about at one point , was the fact that he used to be too drunk on stage , ’ says Charman . |
| 16 | ‘ He used to be so … ’ |
| 17 | I suppose it was because he used to be so , you know , |
| 18 | But he used to be very different . |