Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things like that they ought to put you in a room together , you 'd be fine would n't you ! |
| 2 | ‘ The story is that there 's an irresponsible , bored lunatic in Deptford , and I ought to keep him in a cage until I need him . ’ |
| 3 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee have also examined agriculture and the system of EEC and national supports used to bolster it in the UK 's LFA , to some degree comparing the situation with that in France and West Germany . |
| 4 | I used to see her in the hairdressers sometimes . |
| 5 | The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me . |
| 6 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 7 | Accounts also tell how he used to lock himself in the church all night . |
| 8 | We used to sell them in the Store . |
| 9 | They got no coolers or anything like that , fridges , and nothing of that you know , and er , you 'd got a , we used to fetch it in the morning and we used to supply Massey 's Lavender 's in and two other , two or three other little places . |
| 10 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
| 11 | ‘ But he used to do it in an hour , ’ said his wife impatiently . |
| 12 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 13 | Yes he was , you see and he used to come down , you know , and everybody 's family waiting to go into that tiny tiny little surgery but I do n't know if it 's the same now and the door half open in er well , anyway , still er he , he , he , he used to put something in a bottle and fill it up with water some liquid |
| 14 | Time was when a priest used to put it in the parish mag if he intended being out of the parish for more than twenty-four hours . |
| 15 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 16 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 17 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 18 | And then they used to keep you in the Winter more or less and the visitors making up So it was s a steady trade all round . |
| 19 | When they give you it , they have to watch you swallow it , but I used to keep it in the back of my throat and save it up . |
| 20 | Then you used to build it in a stack and then you used to take it in the barn and thresh it . |
| 21 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 22 | Foggy mornings , you used to gallop them in the fog , the best , gallop horses in the fog . |
| 23 | you used to wake me in the middle of the night when we were first married |
| 24 | If he made a joke and she realized it was one , she used to butt him in the chest — she was much shorter — and say ‘ You 're silly ! ’ |
| 25 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 26 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 27 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 28 | Cos she always used to have it in a pony tail . |
| 29 | that telly was mine but I 've got a lovely picture when I used to have it in the kitchen . |
| 30 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |