Example sentences of "she [modal v] to be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhoda was forty-eight , blonde , buxom and so cheerful Ken said she ought to be a barmaid . |
| 2 | She ought to be a little less susceptible to this man who was causing her brother so many problems . |
| 3 | She used to be a check-out girl in [ name of supermarket ] . |
| 4 | ‘ She used to be a bit of a lost soul , ’ says Jakki , ‘ but she 's changed a lot recently and I think that 's all down to Michael Hutchence . |
| 5 | She used to be a good cunt , now she was a dressful of dead fishmeat . |
| 6 | ‘ She used to be a mechanic before coming here . |
| 7 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 8 | She used to be a typist and is married to a car patrolman on shift work . |
| 9 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 10 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 11 | Does n't she know , I go on , that she used to be a role model ? |
| 12 | A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted at work wants the court to disregard the fact she used to be a man . |
| 13 | She used to be a |
| 14 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 15 | She u she no she has n't she , she used to be a really bad tomboy and like she 's not any more really but |
| 16 | She used to be an old singer , I do n't know any of her songs , but I just know she was an old singer . |