Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although , God knows ’ , he said , ‘ the poor Birds ought to have a holiday from me for years to come , for I have been incessantly shooting and my own gun was not the only one that waged war upon them . |
| 2 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 3 | There was never really any question that Mr Roosevelt should be memorialised and that the monument ought to have an impact comparable to those of the great Lincoln-Jefferson-Washington triumvirate . |
| 4 | Network analysis is the term used to embrace a number of techniques for the planning and control of complex projects . |
| 5 | An entry can not be made by an instrument used to make an entry such as a key or piece of wire used to pull back internal bolts . |
| 6 | In his satirical cabaret days , Nichols used to do a sketch with Elaine May about a Jewish mother 's shock at her son 's choice of profession : ‘ Can you imagine me saying , ‘ There goes my son the nurse ’ ? ’ |
| 7 | The alum acts as a mordant ( a chemical used to create a bond between the fibre and the dyestuff ) , and after the yarn has been satisfactorily treated it is soaked in a bath of dye . |
| 8 | The symbol is the key used to unlock a life experience that is related to the goal of the session . |
| 9 | I backed rapidly up the stairs , holding the bouquet between us like Peter Cushing used to hold a crucifix up to Dracula . |
| 10 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 11 | Erm big stores selling all the Asian er stuff now and so they do n't depend on the Asian shops anymore er the West Indians used to depend a lot on the Asian er grocery stores because er , of er things like erm etc. etc . |
| 12 | Simon used to have a Tokay gekko named Wizard . |
| 13 | ‘ Angharad used to spend a lot of time here , ’ said Beuno . |
| 14 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 15 | Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich . |
| 16 | The Act has been held to apply to a digging machine used to construct a tunnel ( Bunker v Charles Brand & Son Ltd [ 1969 ] 2 QB 480 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I remember how ‘ Monsewer ’ Eddie Gray used to do a sketch about diving into a letterbox , while one of the funniest people was a taxi driver I knew who used to put a mask on and squirt people with a water pistol . |
| 18 | My dad used to work erm and this bloke used to like a pint of erm , oh I ca n't remember |
| 19 | Oh Nigel used to have a perm did n't he ? |
| 20 | And er nearly every boy used to take a handkerchief along with him to the , that was to the Christmas party because that was the only party you had a meal at school . |
| 21 | " But anyway we believed in buying land and that the municipality ought to have a share , that the community ought to have a share in the equity of real estate . " |
| 22 | After all , a general ought to have a wife , a family , ought n't he ? |
| 23 | The plaintiff used to spread a cloth over his elephantoid scrotum and sell sweetmeats from it to the passersby . |
| 24 | Which is a four hundred yards and it was an inset , the top hard seam was ninety yards lower down at the four hundred and ninety yards to the And the High Hazel used to have an inset . |
| 25 | US jungle troops used to spend a week eating local food before starting active combat , to ensure their body odour — partly derived from Western foods — did not give away their location to the enemy . |
| 26 | Eddie used to shoot a lot of duck and could stand like a stone . |
| 27 | Mrs Mills said that the prosecution or magistrates should decide in certain cases whether an accused person ought to have a jury trial . |
| 28 | Herbert Cranko used to tell a story about a very dark-skinned man named Cranko turning up one day in his Johannesburg office , calling him uncle and announcing that he was short of money . |
| 29 | ‘ Dad Weir used to smoke a pipe , and so when we were in Swansea we went along to one of those hairdresser and tobacconist shops , and there in the window was this great big pipe . |
| 30 | In the late fifties and early sixties , British agencies used to have a copy department and an art department , and then a separate TV department . |