Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 2 | We ought to focus on the practical and urgent business problems we have of managing our growth and creating a business strategy that will unite us . ’ |
| 3 | Rather he thinks that people ought to vote on the basis of what they think is right so he uses an with the jury service at this point . |
| 4 | Her husband , looking hard at his glass , said : ‘ You ought to keep on the right side of her , any road . |
| 5 | I ought to knock on the door of this hospital and say , Let me in . |
| 6 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 7 | I used to sit on the wall , spurring the brick and tossing the purse magnanimously to the dog below . |
| 8 | I used to sit on the floor crying but Brian always pulled me out of it . ’ |
| 9 | St Richards was fun and strict , with not enough to eat and high academic standards ; I developed a crush on the assistant matron who had a phenomenally large chest ; I liked her because she used to sit on the ends of our beds and talk to us before we went to sleep . |
| 10 | Somebody used to sit on the carpet at one end of the room with a walking stick and a chalk mark in front of him and the contestants used to have to come up to him and try to rub the marking out and he used to rap the hands with his walking stick . |
| 11 | no the blonde lad , the one who used to sit on the door , er |
| 12 | And everything used to go on the old garden bonfires did n't it , in the past ? |
| 13 | And er we used to go on the High Road together , shopping together , And perhaps Sunday afternoons she 'd say , Oh come on Ada let's have a ride down Nottingham . |
| 14 | Oh we used to go on the works trips , aha , we used to go to Rothesay |
| 15 | Driving this , he used to go on the by the by the clock you know in them days , the first motor . |
| 16 | Often , too , we used to go on the ARP bus , a sort of fishing club for fire fighters in the Heeley Green area of Sheffield , run by local cutler George Sadler . |
| 17 | we used to go on the commons |
| 18 | never used to go on the |
| 19 | oh we used to have , when we used to go on the strawberry field |
| 20 | K. M. When I used to work on the dockside , it was a hive of activity , all the horses and the steam-engines parked along the street . |
| 21 | You 've got to make sure that you 're in good health , and you 're a er hale and hearty individual , so if you 're from a long lived family , erm I once er made a mistake on er delivering one of these courses and er I think erm erm there 's an elderly lady used to work on the course , do you remember Miss , Miss ? |
| 22 | I used to work on the ne , the ne er , drill . |
| 23 | The Rangers midfield player , who used to stand on the Elland Road terraces , fears Howard Wilkinson 's champions could copy Arsenal by going into free-fall after crashing out of Europe . |
| 24 | The right hon. Member for Finchley used to stand on the sidelines wringing her hands , carping and whingeing , but in the end she went along with things . |
| 25 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 26 | And when you got into any gas , a blue flame used to come on the top of your lamp pop , gone . |
| 27 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 28 | Indeed the identi-kit minister called ‘ God 's man ’ used to appear on the back cover of Life and Work in advertisements inviting legacies to be left to the Church and Ministry department , was aged about 60 and had white hair and a moustache . |
| 29 | He was very interested in astronomy and he used to lecture on the stars and that sort of thing . |
| 30 | Naturally , I heard the stories and one morning saw a bloody trail of gore where the wolves had attacked and dragged away an old beggar woman who used to squat on the corner of the Rue St Jacques . |