Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( p. 140 ) Burke estimated that " the people " , by which he meant those who ought to enjoy voting rights , comprised about 400,000 people in England and Scotland . |
| 2 | I tell you who else was there erm the lady who used to do caretaking for you at school you know , who had a little girl months before Becca was born . |
| 3 | Many of the old families and old quintas still have good collections of antiques , augmented over the years by visitors who used to sell china , silver and furniture to pay their bills before leaving the island . |
| 4 | ABRAHAM Lincoln , advised by a Pastor who used to take care of St Enoch 's Church in Glasgow , sent out a call for volunteers two days after Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter , the Union Garrison in the harbour of Charleston , South Carolina . |
| 5 | this huge firm in London erm who used to take graduate trainees on |
| 6 | And this is a boy who used to smoke marijuana and lived in a squat with a girlfriend who had a tattoo on her backside and two kids by somebody else , if you please … ’ |
| 7 | A friend of mine knew a clergyman who used to have bouillabaisse flown over specially from Marseilles every Ash Wednesday . |
| 8 | Did these people who used to lend money get a bit heavy if they were n't repaid ? |
| 9 | The workforce has been slashed by 2,000 and boss Sir John Egan , the man who used to run Jaguar , says that productivity per head has leapt 30% . |
| 10 | Between the farmhouse mob and the purveyors of alcoholic lemonade is a hinterland inhabited by giants such as Dixie of Bristol , who used to travel West Country fairs selling his wares from a thatched Ford Transit van ; and Dunkertons which produces subtle , bright and preservative-free ciders that even the Boy Nigel admits are like the real thing , only better . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the computer consultant who used to write software for CAB use , bowed to budgetary cuts . |
| 12 | There was one guy , way back in the '20s , who used to play mandolin just like a clarinet — incredible . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't mean to say that this chap Edward Lazenby we keep reading about and hearing on the radio is the same chap as that persistent creep Teddy who used to edit Focus when we were at Cambridge ? ’ |
| 14 | Nobody in this band holds their role above the old minstrels , or the court fools who used to offer diversion and try to get a smile . |
| 15 | J.G.V. writes about the knitters , especially one , ‘ Busby ’ , who used to fetch water from the water spouts ( the only supply ) , knitting as he waited for his pail to fill , he was ‘ one of the incessant knitters of Sedbergh ’ . |
| 16 | They remember that the guardians of the tree run back through time to the one who only sang and never spoke , who used to keep vigil by the tree , where the sorceress Sycorax ( but they have forgotten her name ) lies deep with her grave goods . |