Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true there was a lot of housework but I used to be very lonely . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's coincidental , but I used to be in a band at school called The Frogmen now I 'm in The Crickets , ’ says Alex . |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't tell anyone , ’ said Gabriel , ‘ but you ought to be wearing a cloak on a night like this . ’ |
| 4 | Bad news that one , but you used to be pretty friendly , did n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 6 | ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies . |
| 7 | But we ought to be aware of what values we 're holding in in various |
| 8 | It could be that nothing can be done , but we ought to be seen to be taking action over this . |
| 9 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |
| 10 | But they ought to be encouraged to look over the fence at at er |
| 11 | And I and I do n't know whether they still have the wooden lockers now but they used to be , have to be all scrubbed out every week . |
| 12 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 13 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 14 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 15 | no so it was saying how times have changed , but they used to be very , very stuck up and it showed some of the early programmes and how people used to talk , oh so frightfully posh and so frightfully gorgeous and the words , and , it 's rather pleasant is n't it , really rather nice |
| 16 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 17 | ‘ A lovely animal , ’ she said , and the sisters nodded in agreement , ‘ but he ought to be trained . ’ |
| 18 | But he used to be very different . |
| 19 | It was only about eleven now , something like that , but he used to be fourteen stone . |
| 20 | Probably having keys would bee greeted with horror by some , but it ought to be possible to rationalise the finger holes . |
| 21 | It may not be a legal partnership , but it ought to be one ethically . |
| 22 | The Sports Council will await Universiade GB 's concurrence with the deal before nominating their man , but it ought to be one of their members with business acumen — which means either David Simon of BP , who is most unlikely to have the time , Raymond Michel , formerly with a distillery , or Norman Jacobs , a partner in one of Britain 's largest firms of solicitors . |
| 23 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 24 | But it ought to be easier . |
| 25 | The Health and Safety at Work Act has made us rather more concerned about smells and bangs and the dangers these cause , so perhaps life is a little bit less smelly than it was , perhaps a little less exciting , but it ought to be a little longer too . |
| 26 | Second , he continued , life was indeed bad — but it used to be much worse . |
| 27 | It might seem churlish to ask for flavour as well as the chance to save the planet , but it used to be there before the planet needed saving . |
| 28 | The price for the first seems high and for the second low for a house with six acres and a lodge , but it used to be the headquarters of British Coal 's opencast mining subsidiary , which can not have done it any good . |
| 29 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |
| 30 | But it used to be called a ragged school . |