Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently I used to talk a bit like a thick northernish |
| 2 | Perhaps I ought to see a doctor . ’ |
| 3 | mm , perhaps I ought to have a go at Nicks |
| 4 | Perhaps she ought to take a break . |
| 5 | Perhaps you ought to have a word with the kitchen staff , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 6 | And do n't forget erm perhaps we ought to say a word on the er on the conservative 's side here . |
| 7 | Perhaps we ought to have a service at the Minster , or er something to you know , er remember the service of many given to the parish council over a hundred years , and er and it 's something simple , and I think it would be quite nice to er to do something like that . |
| 8 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 9 | Why , for example , one of the , the points that Freud 's book makes , is er when Wilson was confronted with a conflict , particularly with a stronger male , like an elder brother , or his father , he would retreat into speech making , and apparently he used to have a barn where he did it , and he used to go and give speeches in the barn . |
| 10 | It all depends on the scrap merchant , like they used to send a lot of scrap iron erm from Ipswich to Germany just before the war , well they used to send they reckon they send to Danzig |
| 11 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 12 | Well I used to ride a motorbike a and my father had a Triumph motorbike because he bought I do n't why he , why he bought it and he was terrified of it cos it was very fierce ! |
| 13 | Till about 5 years ago I used to run a tea stall . |
| 14 | But even I used to get a lot of hassle with the Black girls who 'd go , ‘ Ooh , you white man lover , you pagan ! ’ and all these kinds of things , and I 'd go , ‘ Yes , I know that , I love it . ’ |
| 15 | aye , well she used to have a paper round |
| 16 | But she says that she 's years ago she used to put an onion in her ear or something . |
| 17 | Well we used to get a bucket and throw it over the v over like that . |
| 18 | Well well they used to make a pile of these things and put straw on top of them and then soil on top of them to keep the frost out . |
| 19 | Oh well they used to have a list of places . |
| 20 | If you did it years ago they used to have a man in the lounge , only in the lounge |
| 21 | You , well you , these and things see , they , they was all sort of er furniture particularly they used to make a lot of . |
| 22 | Well it used to last a day if that , and I never used to cut any of it . |
| 23 | Yeah oh he 's er what happened to him , right he used to like a drink when he were here . |
| 24 | Maybe I ought to take a look at her family . ’ |
| 25 | Maybe I ought to see a doctor about my acid content or something . |
| 26 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 27 | " Maybe you ought to get an expert to look at the china , " suggested Matthew . |
| 28 | I 've not seen a double yoke egg for a long , long time , I do n't know why , but sometimes you used to get a box of six and nearly all of them would be double yoke for some reason , do n't ask me why , I do n't know , where 's your cup ? , did you bring it in ? |
| 29 | ‘ At least you ought to show a bit of gratitude and look about you . ’ |
| 30 | We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off |