Example sentences of "[vb mod] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , although I recognise that the powers of the Director are circumscribed by section 1(3) and the opening words of section 2(1) , so as to relate only to the investigation of suspected offences , it remains true that the powers which I have summarised are concerned with ‘ the affairs ’ of the suspect , and these must to my mind extend beyond the matters which have caused the charge to be laid . |
| 2 | His vision of owners applying the same judgements to their buildings as they might to their car or their rivers being polluted by waste dumping . |
| 3 | I , he wo n't come to me hey , he might to you , but he wo n't come here ! |
| 4 | They shouted commands to each other , the Second Son speaking to the engine as he might to his horse , commanding , urging , praising . |
| 5 | Well , another few weeks in prison wo n't make much difference to your brother , but it might to my niece . |
| 6 | ‘ It might to your fiancé . |
| 7 | But it might to someone else . |
| 8 | I get a cough sometimes I 'll to them as well . |
| 9 | I 'll to my brother . |
| 10 | Quiss hmm 'd to himself . |
| 11 | She felt all right now and when Tucker came as close as he could to her , confidentially crooking his finger , she was only too pleased to lean precariously forward over the dock , ear to his lips . |
| 12 | ‘ We looked round , and there was Anna , crawling as fast as she could to me . |
| 13 | And how they used to They used to put them on like a You know what these two-wheeled barrows like they put the sacks on , do n't you ? |
| 14 | They used to they they started boat building in Finstown where the the builders is now you ken , what do you call them . |
| 15 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 16 | She used to they were made of cotton , cotton aye . |
| 17 | And they used to they used to I had to I had to pluck them and clean them ready to put in the oven . . |
| 18 | We used to one at a time . |
| 19 | Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time . |
| 20 | And we used to her home in the Wintertime |
| 21 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 22 | And we all used to we we both schools ended up , er used to use the same assembly hall . |
| 23 | And when we went to bed early we used to we One used to have to fill the kettle , and then the other one used to have to set the table for next morning for next morning . |
| 24 | You know scatter run and tic one another you know , and and then you used to we used to play er diabolo what you used to call them have you ever seen them . |
| 25 | One or two , we used to we had one or two when we first came up here . |
| 26 | The fox we used to we used to dig down there and come to the vixen . |
| 27 | And we never used to we were about three times home in that er five years time . |
| 28 | We used to we used to we used to erm have a lot a big lot of buttermilk . |
| 29 | We used to we used to we used to erm have a lot a big lot of buttermilk . |
| 30 | W oh we used to we used to go out gather firewood and we used |