Example sentences of "[modal v] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she used to have to give some give somebody sixpence which were a lot of money in them days . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And er lace what 's got all the scallops round , well you used to have to do that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And as they came along we used to have to hang these checks on the number you see ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We always used to have to walk all up |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | . And we used to have er we used to have some donkeys , and we used to have to get those ticked . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I remember cutting out when you used to have to cut all down your rolls of wallpaper . |
| 19 | Of course , they associated being photographed with their father 's death , she ought to have foreseen that . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 22 | You ought to have took that three grand |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose I ought to have made more enquiries when I was inviting him — I mean , it would seem discourteous to ignore her , if she exists . |
| 24 | I do n't know how you do sludge and that there and it 's it 's everything it 's a con you know we ought to have kept some and shown you because it is it is I 've never seen anything like it myself . |
| 25 | A signpost lettered APPLEWICK pointed down it , and the school-house where the Brownies were to spend their Pack holiday was at Applewick ; but the van ought to have gone all the way round by the main road , because it was , as Brenda knew , too big to go under the low bridge . |
| 26 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 27 | You really ought to have had some gloves you know . |
| 28 | If he succumbs to temptation after all and suffers the consequences , it would be to the point to say ‘ You should have known better ’ or ‘ You ought to have had more sense ’ , reproaches which derive their authority from ‘ Face facts ’ ; but it would be irrelevant ( and exasperating ) to say ‘ You should n't have made yourself ill like that ’ , on the authority of the ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ of the practical syllogism interpreted as ‘ Do n't get sick ’ . |
| 29 | He ought to have known that anyway . ’ |
| 30 | Part of the Heseltine strategy is , no doubt , based on the calculation that these debts one day can be collected — and certainly , within the Conservative Party 's electoral college of MPs , he ought to have established some impressive lines of credit . |