Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh right said Daryl and Elsie you ought to know I suppose any way , I 'd suspect you 'd like a sister , it 's nice having one . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Evans ought to hear you singing those songs , he 'd have your hide would n't he ? ’ |
| 3 | What would commonly be taken as a characteristic example of the Naturalistic Fallacy is ethical hedonism , the doctrine that we ought to do what gives most pleasure . |
| 4 | Thatcher 's friends , such as former United Biscuits boss Sir Hector Laing , used to implore her to give British industry the kind of support that was rather more consistent than those who bought and sold its shares in the City . |
| 5 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 6 | And er they used to get them to take these pills they said and they used to drink a bottle of gin , keep drinking gin . |
| 7 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 8 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 9 | Cos people often used to say to me because I 'd , I 'd played everything you could play except golf , and , and er , and I , I , people used to say you did two men 's work and you I , I met a chap one day , this was an instance , I 'm not trying to blow me trumpet do n't think that at all . |
| 10 | Tom 's very superstitious and he used to make me carry three tees in my pocket . |
| 11 | Of course , improving the facilities ought to allow you to charge higher prices . |
| 12 | Damian Flint does everything he possibly can to make me blow twenty-five fuses at once ! |