Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to him quite sharply , not caring who read her letter , that : — it is impossible for me to post a gun as you ought to know you foolish man for what would the post office officials think were I to turn up with a gun to send ? |
| 2 | ‘ You ought to try it one day . ’ |
| 3 | So you really ought to give it some thought . |
| 4 | Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain . |
| 5 | I think they used to overlap them one edge did n't they ? |
| 6 | And they used to buy me new material to encourage me and I learnt how to sew from that . |
| 7 | Then after she got over she used , I used to give her some water then . |
| 8 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Abberley used to give me these chocolates , you see , Christmas and Easter , regular as clockwork . |
| 10 | Used to give them whole oats , you see , cos that was such a good standard for them for running , you see . |
| 11 | We used to put some straw down and the manger and we used to give them some hay and they 'd amuse themselves in there tied up . |
| 12 | And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones . |
| 13 | I used to do it that way |
| 14 | The Milton Humberside , dammit , who used to Do It all night long ? |
| 15 | Well er , probably about er in them days they used to call them twelve score and then so it 'd be twelve , two 's or something that 's two hundred forty pounds I suppose like , you know and er , but most of the people er . |
| 16 | We used to call it higher education , and erm so we had to deal with the , the Lowestoft Grammar School in the same way as we did with the other schools and also with the erm Technical Institute which was at Lowestoft , that was the only erm purpose-built erm centre for further education in the , in the county at that time . |
| 17 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 18 | and I think the lads they used to get them some chocolates or something , she says oh more chocolates I 've got loads of them |
| 19 | I used to have them little plastic ones , that |
| 20 | They used to pay me fifteen shillings a week . |
| 21 | But I 'd forgotten that you know , when we were wee kids , and you used to take them that night you know . |
| 22 | He also used to remind them that theology , even at its best and highest , was a human activity which could take no pride in itself , but only in its object ; it dare not take itself too seriously , but must rather be ‘ a modest , free , critical and happy science ’ ( Evangelical Theology , E.T . |
| 23 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |
| 24 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |
| 25 | Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me . |
| 26 | We used to split them up and his men take his that way and th we used to bring ours this way , yeah . |
| 27 | As I got older and people used to bring me injured birds to look after , I was always very careful of them and did n't approach without the leather glove I wear when working with birds of prey . |
| 28 | We used my sister used to shove me one side , my Dad used to say to her , Go fetch them horses , out the field . |
| 29 | My father , six kids on a Friday night , we used to put a bucket of water on the hot sink , on the old gas stove and my father used to bath us six kids in front of the fire . |
| 30 | You ought to save them wooden type of things for it . |