Example sentences of "[modal v] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed an hour , was perhaps only five minutes — and he left , saying only , ‘ I must to the arms of Morpheus . |
| 2 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 3 | But , cling as she might to the bolster she had taken with her to stop her screams , she could not stop shaking . |
| 4 | At Dead of Night we 'll to the Bride-bed come , And sprinkle hallow 'd Dew-drops round the Room . |
| 5 | For ev'ry one they hasten 'd to the Grave , |
| 6 | The Earl of Nottingham , a Tory who was to make his peace with the Revolution , nevertheless opposed the invitation , condemning it as " high treason , in violation of the Laws … and that allegiance which I ow 'd to the Soveraigne and which I had confirm 'd by my solemn oath " . |
| 7 | When you 're feeding the baby , make sure that the teat is always full of milk , or he 'll suck in air with his feed which could to a bout of indigestion . |
| 8 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 9 | He would have to wait , and until then he would keep as close as he could to the Russian . |
| 10 | Among the gentry residing there was to be found Mr Benedict Beckenham , riding as hard as he could to the devil . |
| 11 | There was no clear path , she was just winding through trees and keeping as close as she could to the direction he had shown . |
| 12 | The only way I could do this was to make myself as familiar as I could to the members of the schools . |
| 13 | I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward . |
| 14 | He escaped as soon as he could to the company of her brothers . |
| 15 | They kept as close as they could to the east bank of the stream and held generally towards the north . |
| 16 | I am well used to a life apart from the circle that many of my Medau friends know me in . |
| 17 | I used to a lot . |
| 18 | I enjoyed it but that was not the right one it was just proper room where er you where you used to every night of the week . |
| 19 | And then you know where the foun the water fountain was where the marsh is , there used to every weekend there used to be a er a chip and fish stall there w and hot peas . |
| 20 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 21 | Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife . |
| 22 | The they used to the Non-conformists whether or not I could n't speak for the Church of England but er there 'd be a lot go you know i in the evening there 'd be several hundred at every one of these places , and there was , there 'd be , ooh four or five Non=conformist places in in . |
| 23 | I am used to the wind 's deep-throated shouts as it tears at the corners of our cottage in Cornwall , as it cracks branches and sweeps up leaves . |
| 24 | And er they used to the cows used to calf you know |
| 25 | it never ought to the exercise never ought to have gone out Harry . |
| 26 | Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support . |
| 27 | As this is an item which people would to a household refuse , waste site already , the problem of generating does not apply to this waste either . |
| 28 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 29 | Treasure Trove laws do not apply to fossils any more than they would to a lump of raw gold or a precious stone imbedded in rock . |
| 30 | In fact , sweet traitor , you clung to my hand as you would to a lover . ’ |