Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb mod] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it was something like that and he had a sister called Lisa who was about a year older than me and I used to be best friends with her . |
| 2 | I , I really jiggered myself this morning and I was only out about half an hour , you know , and I used to be able to do a full day ! |
| 3 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 4 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
| 5 | In turn , we press our point and say , ‘ But it 's a cow , and this is a very simple word , and you ought to be able to understand it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've changed so much and you used to be such a happy child . |
| 7 | A decent blouse and skirt , or an attractive frock , either outfit worn with a clean straw boater , and she ought to be able to get a job in a store . |
| 8 | Everyone has a right to expect her to be predictable ( however trying things are ) and she ought to be worried and apologetic if she behaves strangely . |
| 9 | But erm I th they are worried certainly , one or two of them are worried , but er some of this equipment is left on , and left on unnecessarily and we ought to be encouraging people to switch off what is n't |
| 10 | We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer . |
| 11 | It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud . |
| 12 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 13 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 14 | Most will be adults , and there ought to be two discrete year classes smaller than those . |
| 15 | you know I just keep thinking the stuff 's on the way round and there ought to be some way of doing it , but I , you know , I mean maybe Brian 's idea of the , the , the organizations in the ci ci but that does n't help me you know with a , with a |
| 16 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 17 | And there used to be all them sort of things . |
| 18 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 19 | We could hardly get inside for rubbish and could n't see the floor , it was all dirt , and there used to be two or three benches on which we had to sit down ; then old Morgan would read the Bible to us and pray , we had to kneel down — oh what a dry lesson . |
| 20 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 21 | But there are other situations ( and there used to be many more ) in which the social status of the household is measured by the give/take transactions of the wife rather than of the husband . |
| 22 | That 's all been altered , i they 've all been made into shops and spoilt the you know , the and there used to be old 's , the shoe shop and Mr. 's watch shop and Mrs 's pastry shop . |
| 23 | There was a little post office there and there used to be some shop on there . |
| 24 | Those are words which could be used to describe the righteousness of Paul ; and they ought to be appropriate for us too . |
| 25 | I think that 's where they got the idea and they used to be all leather , thigh boots . |
| 26 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 27 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 28 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 29 | And it used to be dark brown . |
| 30 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |