Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I used to do both jobs , sign you in then rush to the bar . |
| 2 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 3 | every so often , they 've got these little card things well they shove them in and it clicks all these numbers up so I used to buy one token |
| 4 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 5 | PLEASE do all you can to encourage potential teachers to attend , as we depend largely on this event for the new intake to the course , now postponed until the Autumn . |
| 6 | We have done all we can to keep these changes to a minimum . |
| 7 | Perhaps we ought to have some lunch ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then perhaps we ought to recruit young ladies into the police force , ’ Morton said , straight-faced . |
| 9 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 10 | Even then , such assessment as there was was lost in Burgessian rhetoric : ‘ Mr Motion does all he can to chronicle those years and years of world without event , in which the interesting things happened in trousers , in pubs , and on paper … |
| 11 | In the great Victorian house , lives are inevitably connected because they are passed beneath a single roof , depend on the same resources , and can not but have an effect on one another ; yet the planning of the great house does all it can to obliterate these connections . |
| 12 | It was very easy , they either died , four or five days later , very cheaply it used to cost ten pounds to die . |
| 13 | I know , I went , I got some whelks once and that was in Bay , they were lovely whelks and I put 'em in a bucket and er did n't think and now I used to put some flour in with 'em . |
| 14 | They 've had additional training in in erm filling in correctly the the the form and will pick up erm for example on the erm the principal accountabilities — every accountability should have three parts , it should be an action verb to help , or to do , or to ensure , or whatever and it should be what it is you 're doing and thirdly it ought to have some sort of erm target in in in doing it . |
| 15 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 16 | Well we used to make those rings and put the fins on , rivet them on , and the bombs , the , the , the the rings was erm seamlessly weld on a a welder that you two w wheels which were electrically driven and the power was put through them and , and you overlap the two seams like that , and it , as the wheels went round it 'd weld them straight along , they was about eight inches deep seam weld them right down . |
| 17 | Here we ought to stress that evolution is not spurred simplistically on by ‘ random mutation ’ , as the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins points out in his book The Blind Watchmaker . |
| 18 | No , not then , they all had cara well they used to have wee things they could stick on a a cart , a kind of bow shaped thing . |
| 19 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 20 | And then we used to put these loops the through the loops and tie their legs to the string . |
| 21 | And then we used to put some coops there and small runs for them and we used to carry them there , every night because they settled down better in the night than in the daytime . |
| 22 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 23 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 24 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |
| 25 | In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once . |
| 26 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 27 | So I think these are two very , very valid reasons why we ought to ban all forms of tobacco advertising . |
| 28 | And then in the old days when they used to have this body snatching , |
| 29 | And they used to wh Why they used to work this breeding you see , they used to ad well some people in the South stallions they wanted to travel to Orkney to make money and advertise them . |
| 30 | These doughs are made in three minutes now where it used to take six hours . |