Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think we ought to go out and make any panic buys . |
| 2 | Sue and I decided that we ought to go out and buy some stationery . |
| 3 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 4 | My brother and I used to sit together and drive this old horse up and down the field and throw the hay all over the place to get the sun . |
| 5 | Later , when he was in Wimbledon , I used to go round and drop some seeds on the ground and tell him they were pot . |
| 6 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 7 | He , they used to go out and do all the outside work for him . |
| 8 | The man used to come round and collect that , a chap named . |
| 9 | Well , he used to come home and say that and I 'd say put a suggestion in but |
| 10 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |