Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contacting Gotha itself was a great problem … we did all we could to get the picture back to them … due to political circumstances we were unsuccessful ’ . |
| 2 | They ought to shut the path up to that terrible cliff for good . ’ |
| 3 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 4 | And of course my work here , I used to do in I used to plant a lot in . |
| 5 | No apparently , yeah , my dad used to carry a gun around so like they 'd go , they 'd go out to like a restaurant , yeah |
| 6 | I used to carry the box up for him when he was going to smoke the bees out , and I was able to observe him pretty closely . |
| 7 | But they came with the chief being an Anglesey man you see , they came from Anglesey as well to erm they used to come a lot in and erm as apprentices you know And er Aye no , the ol same old game again that er we in Wales seem to inherit it 's in I suppose it 's in the B B C and everywhere is n't it . |
| 8 | He used to smash the fuck out of all of us ; he used to belt all of us , my sisters as well . |
| 9 | And I could tell you another story as well , I maybe used to pinch an apple out of one of the barrels . |
| 10 | ‘ Last thing at night he always had his tot of rum , and it used to smell the room out . |
| 11 | But originally I can remember that View in the days of the , when it was a poorhouse , and I visited with my mother who used to visit a woman up there . |
| 12 | Used to dredge the channel out , how , how wide did the channel have to be ? |
| 13 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 14 | And a we used to get the skin , I used to pick the skin up . |
| 15 | You used to have to go down three steps , and they used to fetch the beer in a jug . |
| 16 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 17 | Once you 've got that you could fiddle around with that and we used to lower a station down , tie the end , we 'd do the best we could to do it . |
| 18 | During the war when I was evacuated , I used to do a paper round . |
| 19 | Just do Wicken on a Tuesday you know , cut the meat as you go , not orders there and then on the Friday , George would go to Upware on a Friday and then on a Saturday we used to do the Fen round again , down Fen on the earth road at black , no concrete there just the black earth with ruts about that deep , some places , cos the Fen earth you li bulges out so and er my father used to go to Wicken Saturday afternoon . |
| 20 | Well old Jack er , he di used to do the post round and he lived in the next cottage |
| 21 | When we were kill-pricking we used to put a sack down on the floor and lie on our bellies using a bodkin to clear holes . |
| 22 | Was there ever a custom mentioned to you whereby they used to put a cairn down ? |
| 23 | The rabbits he used to put a snare down for , and erm if we were lucky we got one . |
| 24 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 25 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 27 | Like say last week me and Russell never got up before , oh my mother and father come to the house right and it was quarter past ten and we were still in bed and my father put the milk cos the , my milkman leaves my milk by the gate because , with the dog , he always used to leave the gate open so I used to let the dog out in the morning and the dog would go out so I said do n't put the milk by the door , leave it just , put it over the gate cos I like the gate left shut . |
| 28 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 29 | The news filtered back to his father , who was unremitting in his insistence on academic excellence and career worthiness : ‘ The old man was wild about this and he used to kick the shit out of me . |
| 30 | Paul used to turn the thermostat down when John was not looking . |