Example sentences of "he [modal v] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He used to be quite |
| 11 | Well you know he used to be quite good looking when he was younger but now he 's really ugly . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ He used to be so … ’ |
| 15 | I suppose it was because he used to be so , you know , |
| 16 | But he used to be very different . |