Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman ought to bear it in mind that the rules are very clear . |
| 2 | ‘ If I come across Amy Marr , surely I ought to put her in touch with the police or possibly the Bishop ? ’ |
| 3 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 4 | When I came home on leave I used to meet them in Crawford 's Oak Hall in Princes Street , and now I made the usual arrangement . |
| 5 | It 's rather surprising to you , but they used to sell them in Woolworths for sixpence . |
| 6 | He used to buy them in Reading . |
| 7 | He used to buy them in Reading . |
| 8 | We used to buy it in Safeways . |
| 9 | And we used to put it in stews . |
| 10 | Once , just because I was n't wearing any knickers — and he used to love it in Nice . ’ |
| 11 | Their family was really big and they were really noisy people and Nigo used to fancy everything in sight , he used to fancy me and chase me round the playground . |
| 12 | He used to have us in stitches at times at Aberdeen , and I 'm sure he does at United . |
| 13 | I used to have it in stereo with a Dynacomp and an early BOSS chorus — a real monster sound ! ’ |
| 14 | But erm , she used to take one in coffee and nothing in suga , I mean in tea , I think , and then she just gave it up , and she said it , she hated it for ages , and then one day she she tasted , she drank my father 's and she said it was absolutely foul |
| 15 | ‘ She used to take it in bed and that was her night cap … |
| 16 | We used to take it in turns , did n't we , Ken ? ’ |
| 17 | We still say that that 's what the Frenchmen used to say it in French aye . |
| 18 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 19 | In 1944 , Beveridge wrote : ‘ We cure unemployment in war through hate of Hitler ; we ought to cure it in peace through hate of social evils … |