Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried telling her she was wrong , which was silly really , because no-one ought to decide such things for anyone else … ’ |
| 2 | Do you think I ought to put that teddy in his cot ? |
| 3 | Just as there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This is a pleasant experience ’ to saying ‘ This is a good thing ’ , so there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This act will produce the best consequences ’ to saying ‘ I ought to do this act ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
| 5 | I suppose I ought to organise some curtains , but I never shut them so it 's hardly a priority . |
| 6 | I ought to start this note with a health warning — it contains some mathematics ; not a lot , but some . |
| 7 | ‘ I ought to get some sleep , ’ he said , but the coke had taken hold , it was lifting him , and he had such a good seat at the circus , he did n't really want to leave . |
| 8 | I ought to get some vegetables today I suppose . |
| 9 | All Americans go Eh Nine o'clock tomorrow I 'm going over to Kate ten thirty that gives me a bit of lee-way I 've got a at ten I thought it was ten thirty I ought to get some money out really You 're not going into Woking tomorrow morning are you doing your quiz ? |
| 10 | ‘ I ought to get these keys to the garage . ’ |
| 11 | When I was at Notts County , I used to score more goals in the second half of the season . |
| 12 | I used to love that place . |
| 13 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 14 | ‘ Whenever I went out of my house I used to see any number of revolting things . |
| 15 | I know , I went , I got some whelks once and that was in Bay , they were lovely whelks and I put 'em in a bucket and er did n't think and now I used to put some flour in with 'em . |
| 16 | I used to hate it when Nanny put rags in my hair and , whenever I had a wish , I used to wish that mine was curly like yours . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I used to take this lad for walks and he was forever saying ‘ Beckus my old grey mare ’ . |
| 18 | And I used to use this flat because although I had to pay Dad a bit of rent , of course , it was quite low . |
| 19 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 20 | I used to do this thing about being tucked up by my mother at night . |
| 21 | So I used to do both jobs , sign you in then rush to the bar . |
| 22 | Yeah , I used to go down to and I used to pass these fish shops , I had to have fish and chips |
| 23 | I used to think all poets were Byronic — |
| 24 | I used to think all poets were Byronic . |
| 25 | I used to think all poets were Byronic — |
| 26 | " I used to think these places were terrible , before I came here , but it 's marvellous , " says one of the mothers whose two boys regard the refuge as " our new house " . |
| 27 | I , I , I 'm very concerned , erm , about this because er , I used to deliver this dip , and I , I 'm concerned er , about my staff , and there 's been lots of cases that have claimed that this er , dip has affected people . |
| 28 | I used to pay this friend to go like into Tesco 's . |
| 29 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 30 | In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once . |