Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to the visit to Merstham , I had hoped that if he were to come all that way , he ought to see something of the country , as it was then still of an unspoilt rural character and in autumn especially beautiful . |
| 2 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 3 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 4 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 5 | He used to swing her by the leg to fortify her character . |
| 6 | Accounts also tell how he used to lock himself in the church all night . |
| 7 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 8 | Dad , dad used to use it for the bonfires but when he , when he did n't have any petrol he used to use it on the bonfire and he had it in a secret bottle and erm he got it too near and he did n't realize and all of a sudden it goes really really hot and he threw it and everywhere . |
| 9 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 10 | He used to shut you in the next room and give you a pile of books and you 'd have to take notes from about seven or eight different books . |
| 11 | He used to ask us for the pearl off our coats , collars , put on the horses , make 'em all . |
| 12 | He used to tell me about the odd trip to Eastern Europe on business . |
| 13 | And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know . |
| 14 | This was apparently one of only two books which Che Guevara carried with him to Bolivia ( the other being an arithmetic textbook ) , and Che told Neruda that he used to read it to the guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra , and presumably in Bolivia as well ( Neruda : 1974 , p. 439 ) . |
| 15 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 16 | And of course he used have it in his hand in a loop and he used to top it over the side with a big lead weight on and that and he , he 'd know how much deep the er river was . |
| 17 | and er he used to , he had a contract with some big potato firm and he used to buy all the , the fertilizer bags in the locality and he used to bring them there to the end of the road and he used to wash them in the burn . |
| 18 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |