Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 2 | We 've got an emergency exit where we used to have a roof . |
| 3 | Er as far as out-sourcing is concerned , when we learned that there could be two thousand jobs lost or out-sourced from British Aerospace , it was my opinion in line with those of our representatives that we ought to convene a meeting immediately of all shop stewards and representatives who would be covered er through those discussions and arrange and organize a strategy to oppose it . |
| 4 | Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in . |
| 5 | The notion of justice which I find most convincing is that which tells us that we ought to seek a society in which each person is accepted as of equal moral worth and has equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total sum of society 's goods . |
| 6 | I said that we ought to er somebody asked me er from one of the national papers which ought to be put in place there and I did suggest that we ought to have a statue like just been mentioned to somebody from Beeston they 've got a nice man on a bench there . |
| 7 | And on the top of that we used to keep a sink-bath . |
| 8 | This is a playground game that we used to play a lot when I was young . |
| 9 | It 's coming out of our taxes , that 's where , and we ought to put a stop to it . |
| 10 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 11 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 12 | And we used to get a lot of Californian fruit . |
| 13 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |
| 14 | There used to be rubbish dumps and mud and all that and we used to have a laugh there , you know what I mean ? |
| 15 | Now policemen , we used to have to give these blessed people these tickets , and we used to have a book , and they just merely gave name , age , occupation , which was nearly always labourer , where , and they had to tell us where they came from and where they intended going to , and more often that was from Stowmarket to , or the other way round . |
| 16 | Aye , we went on the train to Dunfermline and we used to have a lot of trips . |
| 17 | Well as you know I was a shepherd and I used to look after the Chichester Estate and we used to have a lot of erm lot of erm sheep in those days . |
| 18 | And we used to have a box lamp . |
| 19 | Once you 've got that you could fiddle around with that and we used to lower a station down , tie the end , we 'd do the best we could to do it . |
| 20 | Cos we used to have a lot of factories you see |
| 21 | I do n't know if we ought to put a timetable on that , on what 's going on , on this erm , eco-management erm , business , but also , I was wondering , could we not ask for a report to the March or April meeting of this committee , on what actions we could take to make progress on the recommendations of the district auditor in paragraph forty-four . |
| 22 | " Yes , we will , but we ought to get a present for Ma first . |
| 23 | ‘ But we used to take a lot o' pride in the hay , and it was all trussed up with — good tradesmen trussed it up , you know . |
| 24 | What I 've told the players is we 've got to go up and play as well as we can to beat a team like Blackburn . |