Example sentences of "we [modal v] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ought to be on the top — on the top and in the open . " |
| 2 | ‘ If you 're sure you 're all right , James , we ought to be on our way . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ By morning , we ought to be on the same side of the Forth as they are , and facing the open space to the west of the forest . |
| 4 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 5 | Erm er the costing involves we will just say we ought to be for the first fortnight . |
| 6 | ‘ We ought to be under no illusion that the success or otherwise of what is happening in Poland and Hungary will substantially rest upon the actions of the two governments , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 7 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 8 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 9 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 10 | Oh we used to er we used we used to at sc we used to be at school until we were eleven years old . |
| 11 | especially when we used to be at factory , because we used to come down Phillip 's yard , did n't |
| 12 | We used to be in the same practice , Peter and I. Now he 's doing his stuff under the desert sun . |
| 13 | Modern relevant and as successful in recruitment of the workforce of the nineties as we used to be in recruiting the workforce of the sixties and seventies . |
| 14 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |