Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So do n't go telling her she ought to go back to that dump in the sky . ’ |
| 2 | Christmas in the Scrubs ought to crop up in some colour magazine , Home Office permitting . |
| 3 | You know where you used to go down to that Mall Court |
| 4 | We used to go out on these walks in the country near the school , and we were accused of going with two lorry drivers behind a bush to have sex with them in exchange for a watch . |
| 5 | and they used to go out to these units and take slides and er lecture to the , to the men about birds and er natural history and Mr himself he , he was famous for three different lectures that he used to offer . |
| 6 | We used to go along to various churches in the area playing music . |
| 7 | They used to come round with cheap stuff , getting rid of their rubbish . |
| 8 | Well this all had coal and , and the , the chimneys want wanted sweeping and if you did n't sweep your chimney regular the soot used to come down onto this water into , into this er boiler . |
| 9 | Well , there were these round concrete blocks , with silos at the top , and they used to come in with these loads of scraps , tip it in and you know what we had to do ? |
| 10 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 11 | Their bedroom doors used to open up onto this balcony . |
| 12 | She says in the old days women used to look out for each other 's children . |
| 13 | I know Mother used to help out at Low Fields in an attempt to ease Daddy 's burden a bit . |
| 14 | And I used to wake up like two feet off my bed , like I du n no my , my body |
| 15 | We just used to hang around with each other and it was just one of those things , like , that you 'd never done before . |
| 16 | He used to get up to all kinds of high jinks on those trips , by all accounts . |
| 17 | ‘ We used to get up to all sorts of tricks . ’ |
| 18 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 19 | ‘ I think you ought to watch out for that woman , Bob . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I really ought to get on with some work , ’ she said at last , waveringly . |