Example sentences of "we [adv] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
| 2 | We all used to be together on New Year 's Eve , did n't we , Dad ? ’ |
| 3 | And it 's my opinion we both ought to be glad for that . ’ |
| 4 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 5 | We really ought to be rehearsing this stuff , well finalising the scripts after half term . |
| 6 | We really ought to be going to some to truss . |
| 7 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 8 | But a lot of people would say of course that it is of such importance , that we really ought to be up to date with exactly what 's going on , after all this is happening on our behalf . |
| 9 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 10 | We never used to be able to go and play anywhere take this one with you . |