Example sentences of "i [vb mod] to [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If you do n't want me any longer I ought to be on my way to the hospital . |
| 2 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 3 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 4 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 5 | I feel that I really ought to spend six minutes answering the kind of letter that begins : ‘ I used to be at your prep school . |
| 6 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to be on the school lunch programme , you used to have free lunch in the schools , you know , then they wiped that out . |
| 8 | " I used to be on the stage myself , " said Grace , " a long time ago . |
| 9 | No I did n't cos I was on , I used to be on a oil card delivering paraffin oil round the countryside and then cos I used to stink apparently and then I got this job at er on a pushbike |
| 10 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 11 | I used to be down a straight road here . |
| 12 | I used to be down a straight road . . |
| 13 | I used to be in school with Byron . |
| 14 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 15 | ‘ I used to be in agony all the time , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to be in agony all the time , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Well I used I used to be in the kitchen you know . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's coincidental , but I used to be in a band at school called The Frogmen now I 'm in The Crickets , ’ says Alex . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Because I used to be in a mental institution but they said I was well so I 'm allowed out now . |
| 23 | You do n't want I used to be like that |
| 24 | I used to be like that . |
| 25 | I used to , I used to be like that you know terrible . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm a model , or I used to be until I married . |