Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coaches ought to know what the children should be practising . |
| 2 | Perhaps I ought to know what the scenario was . |
| 3 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 4 | I think you should to do it no problem |
| 5 | We ought to buy her a present . ’ |
| 6 | I mean , like you say , you ought you know you ought to buy her a talking alarm clock for Christmas . |
| 7 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 8 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 9 | Perhaps I ought to fix you a drink ? ’ |
| 10 | They said they would , but they said you ought to give us the surname . |
| 11 | I never thought it would work , but I felt we ought to give it a try . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think you ought to give it a try . |
| 13 | Now , those little reminders ought to give you a kind of mental map of how to go about writing your press releases this afternoon . |
| 14 | I used to see him every day , basically , every night , just working with him in the studio and stuff , and I think it will always be there , thinking of him and everything . |
| 15 | See , we used to visit him every day . |
| 16 | We used to speculate what the dish could have been . |
| 17 | It used to annoy her the way everybody took no notice . |
| 18 | But there 's a lot of adulterated cockney in the home counties , I used to hear it a lot in Hertfordshire . |
| 19 | And the carter used to steal a lot of oats for for the the the the gaffer used to give him a ration for a week , and the granary would be lo locked . |
| 20 | Sheila wo Sheila used to give him a bone so maybe he thought |
| 21 | I used to give him a pound whenever I met him : let no-one call me ungenerous . |
| 22 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 23 | ‘ She used to give me a piece of the dough when she was making pastry . |
| 24 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |
| 25 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 26 | I did n't like him , he used to give me the creeps , but he was n't that sort . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Christ that used to give me the shits , ’ said the New Zealander . |
| 28 | And then the men folk used to give them a bit of tobacco and stuff like that , mhm . |
| 29 | When they were little , whenever they had a cut or a graze and had to have the plaster taken off , which was painful , William 's grandad used to give them a treat first . |
| 30 | A past employer of mine used to give himself a gourmet week at home once a year . |