Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly — though the outcome is happier — with Craig 's votes : all of them , the original as well as the transferred , contributed to his surplus , so all of them ought to be taken into account in its transfer . |
| 2 | I mean you u some of them used to be the growth roll up , you know the |
| 3 | Found out one , one of them used to be a staff trainer . |
| 4 | And the second point I make is that if there are fools who are doing it wrongly then some of you ought to be doing it correctly . |
| 5 | That 's why her dragons are rather boring — while yours , ’ said the voice of Greicha , ‘ is almost as good as some of mine used to be . |
| 6 | Oh it 's a technique , a relation of ours used to be a car sprayer |
| 7 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 8 | You do n't play with Josh like you used to — you just sit ! |
| 9 | ‘ Sounds like it ought to be a pub , ’ people used to say , but it was n't a pub , it was a café . |
| 10 | ‘ Looks like it ought to be in a museum , ’ Donna said with awe , fingering the inlaid panel on the top . |
| 11 | It 's not like it used to be . |
| 12 | Not like it used to be in our young day . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If only the hunting now was like it used to be when we were their age , ’ said Kalchu , nodding towards the twins . |
| 14 | For Kelly , it was just like it used to be . |
| 15 | ‘ It is more difficult for spinners to grip the ball today because it does not get scuffed like it used to . |
| 16 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 17 | You choose your , your own like it used to be . |
| 18 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 19 | I used to I used to er wear print and white apron in the in the morning . |
| 20 | I used to I used to l live in Stockport |
| 21 | She used to she used to she goes erm |
| 22 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 23 | We used to we used to we used to erm have a lot a big lot of buttermilk . |
| 24 | We used to we used to we used to erm have a lot a big lot of buttermilk . |
| 25 | And er birds we used to we used to we used to father used to caught pheasants occasionally . |
| 26 | And they used to they used to I had to I had to pluck them and clean them ready to put in the oven . . |
| 27 | He used to he used to run his own ship , er a little coastal a little coastal er er vessel . |
| 28 | Why it lay down er just down the road as you turned down to it used to be across the fields . |
| 29 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 30 | You see Walsall being a leather town there was a lot of this er bark tannin as went and when anyone who was ill so they would n't hear the noises of the horse driven vehicles going by they used to , for about fifty yards each side of the house they used to put this stuff in the road to deaden the sound . |