Example sentences of "[prep] [vb mod] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The difficulty , if not danger … of attempting to state the conditions which must be fulfilled before a given kind of conduct or of unfairness amounts to an invalidating cause is greatly increased by the introduction of the consideration that the equity must be such as ought to prevail against the claims of the creditor as a possibly innocent third party . |
| 2 | And she was saying , I do n't really believe , it was quite quite sort of used to have a beeper on him |
| 3 | Sometimes Moore identifies good with ought to exist for its own sake . |
| 4 | WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants . |
| 5 | Oh no you used to used to go to different to different to dig graves in different churches where there was no man to be out to dig a grave |
| 6 | They used to used to go up this , as you say it was part of the erm holiday , used to go up this mountain , driven up this mountain then they 'd toboggan down . |
| 7 | There was different th different things that we used to used to do , I mean erm that was Sunday taken care of . |
| 8 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 9 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 10 | and he says that he used to used to trap them . |
| 11 | Er they , there were seasons for all these things and then erm balls , we used to used to play balls up against the walls . |
| 12 | The change reference number will subsequently by used to identify the change |