Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This only ought to take a couple of minutes , then she could be on her way to find out more about the attic . |
| 2 | I just used to do a bit of cottaging , picking people up , particularly during the war ; that was the heyday in picking people up so easily — in crowded trains , in the blackout — but it was always just the one-off . |
| 3 | I 've usually been , been senior secretary , I 've usually been the one in charge of the petty cash , which , sent out for proper coffee and the new kettle if the kettle blew it 's fused and the and the tea pot and the tea bags and the , I just used to write a note in the , in the cash book |
| 4 | They 've changed all the things that used to be just because they know Like form twos always used to have an end of term leaving party . |
| 5 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 6 | A senior minister , looking at the vast new platform which turned the Winter Gardens into a television set , suggested that it really ought to contain a pantheon for past leaders . |
| 7 | ‘ We really ought to make a start on getting this place cleaned up , you know . |
| 8 | Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball . |
| 9 | Did I tell you he even used to have a name for it ? |
| 10 | The small reedy pools nearby used to have a population of mallard , teal and black-headed gulls in summer as well as a pair of red-throated divers , but the hoodies have spoiled all that . |
| 11 | He never used to make a fuss about anything . |