Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a thief , a criminal , he nicked my bag and I had to sift through every shit-bin in Bristol till I found my dreams and found out what I ought to 've known all along if you had n't … |
| 2 | You ought to try taking some of them , honestly they 're so easy the exams are , like history , ah , talk about easy , spartan erm , you could G C S E , P E mum |
| 3 | The English curriculum ought to help to overcome such snobbery by encouraging children to discuss their accents and to be proud of regional differences , but the task of overcoming arrogance about accents is formidable . |
| 4 | And then I used to bank I used to post put that in the post office in a separate account , I did n't use it you see . |
| 5 | Secondly , whenever local politics were looked at , they were investigated using quantitative statistical techniques , used to try to find some sort of ‘ link ’ or ‘ association ’ between local inputs ( such as population density , income per capita , degree of urbanization ) and policy outputs ( usually levels of expenditure on particular services ) . |
| 6 | The old days with the Coes and the Ovetts , they used to avoid racing each other , and the public never ever got the benefit from that . |
| 7 | used to keep saying that . |
| 8 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 9 | I used to love doing this . |
| 10 | Well she used to have to give some give somebody sixpence which were a lot of money in them days . |
| 11 | Now policemen , we used to have to give these blessed people these tickets , and we used to have a book , and they just merely gave name , age , occupation , which was nearly always labourer , where , and they had to tell us where they came from and where they intended going to , and more often that was from Stowmarket to , or the other way round . |
| 12 | And er lace what 's got all the scallops round , well you used to have to do that . |
| 13 | We had to make and we used to have to take this milk , I used to take it about five o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | So when Scotland Yard sent us photographs of criminals that we were dealing with , we used to have to take this descriptive form and photograph to Walters the photographers in Plane , and he charged sixpence to copy the photograph . |
| 15 | And as they came along we used to have to hang these checks on the number you see ? |
| 16 | He went back , some horses left a bit in their manger I used to have to put all that down nothing verbal , all on paper . |
| 17 | But we used to have these , these bins at the end of each road and we used to have to put any scrap or unwanted food in . |
| 18 | And er and they the the afternoon shift used to come on and I used to have to carry all these checks across then , the yard and take 'em and hang 'em up in the in the check-weigh on the pit top where they weighed the wagons of coals . |
| 19 | Well there were a woman that used to have have that and they called her Maggie and she used to serve drinks there , whisky and that was before Stromness was voted dry you see . |
| 20 | Then in back end they used to empty this crew yard and you used to have to handle all that with forks , muck forks , they used to call them , and that was big biggest fork and by God , they used to pull your heart out . |
| 21 | We always used to have to walk all up |
| 22 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 23 | . And we used to have er we used to have some donkeys , and we used to have to get those ticked . |
| 24 | and erm they used to have to send these cards to Birmingham to be processed and there used to be a van going out from er Milner House to Birmingham . |
| 25 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 26 | Used to have to eat all sorts of things at different times I used to try and eat apples as opposed to , you know , sort of , something fairly healthy but |
| 27 | I remember cutting out when you used to have to cut all down your rolls of wallpaper . |
| 28 | And er he used to be he he mother used to make make some tea for him and warm tea in a bottle in a glass bottle you know . |
| 29 | Of course , they associated being photographed with their father 's death , she ought to have foreseen that . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a scene in the showers and when it was over , Kenneth came up to me and said , ‘ Oh you ought to have seen all the people gathering around you ’ . |