Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [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 | ‘ My mother used to treat me like a stranger , ’ he reflected . |
| 4 | Irena loved the fragrance , and Bella used to like it as a child , but now it filled her nostrils with the smoky smell of decay , of things drying up and dying . |
| 5 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 6 | Both types have snap-on terminals used to connect them to a detector in a similar way to a PP3 . |
| 7 | The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me . |
| 8 | And the people used to sharpen it to a point , why the Slippery Elm I do n't know , I 've often wondered about it really , but his person I 'm telling you about she she was delivered of a good healthy boy and everything was alright . |
| 9 | The pause , the question , had been a mere formality , the token request for permission men used to cover themselves against a variety of possible future accusations . |
| 10 | My dad used to buy it , always used to buy it on a Sunday evening . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | And I 'm afraid the young men used to use it as a peephole whilst the young ladies were in a state of undress . |
| 13 | Azurite : painters used to use it as a pigment . |
| 14 | They used to use it like a canal ; anything that could n't be moved easily by land , they 'd stick it on a boat . |
| 15 | They used to fill it with a mixture of skin , feathers and maggots for a shilling . |
| 16 | Tommy Roberts used to phone me on a Saturday when I first started working there . |
| 17 | Yeah we used to trim 'em with a hammer and chisel before |
| 18 | Make it into a a thick layer , and then in a day of so , the juice from the would have soaked into this second class hay and er you used to mix it with a fork and load it into into bags . |
| 19 | Had the nails in his mouth you know and er used to knock 'em with a file . |
| 20 | Then you used to build it in a stack and then you used to take it in the barn and thresh it . |
| 21 | Her mother used to hang them from a hook in the kitchen ceiling in order to be able to work round them . |
| 22 | I think cos we used to have them on a trolley , yeah mm , I wonder if that |
| 23 | Cos she always used to have it in a pony tail . |
| 24 | you 've got proof , and I used to check it as a form teacher every , at the end of every week tick it and sign it I I only had about what , twenty in the class used to , every end of every week check and see they 're writing their homework down and if any problems came of it had n't written it down they were in trouble ! |
| 25 | And her mother used to take her in a governess cart ( 'sometimes drawn by a donkey' ) to the seaside , when they lived in Essex . |
| 26 | Yeah , years ago my granddad remember , he used to take me to a pantomime something |
| 27 | So I went and I used to take it in a bottle for him . |
| 28 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 29 | My daughter used to make it like a nativity |
| 30 | Andy will to shag anything with a pulse as he says . |