Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , those little reminders ought to give you a kind of mental map of how to go about writing your press releases this afternoon . |
| 2 | But there 's a lot of adulterated cockney in the home counties , I used to hear it a lot in Hertfordshire . |
| 3 | And the carter used to steal a lot of oats for for the the the the gaffer used to give him a ration for a week , and the granary would be lo locked . |
| 4 | ‘ She used to give me a piece of the dough when she was making pastry . |
| 5 | And then the men folk used to give them a bit of tobacco and stuff like that , mhm . |
| 6 | In many cases , mummy used to give you a sweet to ‘ make it better ’ or because you had been ‘ good ’ . |
| 7 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 8 | On the days when he used to leave her a note in the morning she knew well enough that there was no good to be hoped for in replying to it . |
| 9 | He looked after Lucy during the day while I was at work , but I found out afterwards that he used to leave her a lot with my friends upstairs . |
| 10 | This woman knew I had a crush on her , in fact I used to send her a memo with a single asterisk in the middle of the page on the day after any night I 'd masturbated thinking mainly about her . |
| 11 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |
| 12 | My mother used to call him the Sage in bloom , ’ she added , ‘ when he was chasing women , that was . ’ |
| 13 | I used to call it the back of actually . |
| 14 | In fact , they used to call it the gun for the wild ducks do you see . |
| 15 | They did n't use to cut it in slices they used to break you a piece off a a big loaf . |
| 16 | Seeing used to tell us a lot about this , did n't he , at class when it |
| 17 | The lady used to bring me a bag of hand knitting balls , which she had weighed . |
| 18 | She used to make him a cup of tea and used to drink it herself . |
| 19 | we made it straight away , we were working Saturday and Sunday in London as soon as we were finished I always used to make us a pack of sandwiches about six or eight did n't I ? |