Example sentences of "she [modal v] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother . |
| 2 | She ought to be in a home ! |
| 3 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 4 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 5 | She ought to be in one or the other . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Aye she used to be at the bank |
| 8 | She 's over there because she used to be on the erm |
| 9 | She used to be with Grand Metropolitan and now , apparently , they 've had to appoint men to fill her post . |
| 10 | I know she used to be like that with me |
| 11 | Sharon 's mother says she used to be against the death sentence , but not now . |
| 12 | She used to be in the front line at the Windmill . ’ |
| 13 | oh yes , oh I know Dora she used to be in our dancing troop |
| 14 | that group she used to be in |
| 15 | she used to be in their Templux . |
| 16 | She used to be in the window and her sister , and I ca n't remember her sister 's name , there was two of them , they , they used to do . |
| 17 | and er , she used to be in the |
| 18 | She used to be in the pantomimes at Windsor . |