Example sentences of "[modal v] to go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history teacher ought to go beyond the generalities of support for parliamentary democracy and liberty to help young people understand the changing nature of society , with its changing patterns of employment and unemployment , its multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nature with the changing status of women , and the ways in which moral attitudes and beliefs are being affected by science and technology . |
| 2 | 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' ? ’ |
| 3 | I wrote back and said no way did I think that she ought to go into the unit . |
| 4 | Neither the campaign nor the result purged him or his family of a settled if unenthusiastic feeling that he ought to go into the House of Commons . |
| 5 | Do you think you ought to go to the doctors again ? |
| 6 | I ought to go to the party . |
| 7 | I think you ought to go to the doctor 's about that |
| 8 | Well everybody ought to go to the dentist if they want to keep their teeth nice and healthy . |
| 9 | You ought to go to the Empress Monday nights . |
| 10 | You ought to go in the Loco . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Rosalind , ’ Peggy began in a rather shaky voice , ‘ but your letter got damaged and the policeman did n't think it ought to go in the post with a tear in it and so we came — ‘ |
| 12 | I mean this ought to go in the paper really . |
| 13 | This ought to go in the paper Mary , not boot not the car boot . |
| 14 | I feel it ought to go before the A G M rather than just be agreed . |
| 15 | I must to go to the pub and see |
| 16 | The Nadder seemed to carry much more water that used to go under the bridge at a fair old pace . |
| 17 | this and that then the old women used to go to the door , shilling . |
| 18 | And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early . |
| 19 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 20 | I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator . |
| 21 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 22 | The engagements used to go to the artists who brought them back the best presents from their tours abroad . |
| 23 | For the Opens he used to go to the course a week or so in advance and play on his own . |
| 24 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 25 | And we used to go to the cathedral |
| 26 | But I oh I used to go to the country dancing . |
| 27 | What used to go to the matches when you were a lad ? |
| 28 | ‘ At the beginning of the '60s I lived in Ealing , and used to go to the Ealing Jazz Club when guys like Cyril Davis were playing . |
| 29 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 30 | ‘ Every summer we used to go to the seaside in Croatia , and I built sandcastles with the other children . |