Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After all , we would like to distinguish between adverbials which indicate a connection between one sentence and the next and those adverbials used to link a set of sentences to another set . |
| 7 | All employers used to receive a rebate of 35 per cent of their redundancy bill from the Redundancy Fund . |
| 8 | Football coach , Bear Bryant , is also a farmhand and in the old days farmhands used to guide a team of animals in front of the plough , encouraging them and making sure they all pulled together . |
| 9 | The scale of values used to draw a graph is very important if you are to read it accurately , Look at the same advertising graphs again , this time both are drawn to the same scale . |
| 10 | German-speakers used to do a lot of research there , but unfortunately , Hispanic studies have practically died out in this country . |
| 11 | OME props ought to carry a warning . |
| 12 | Two local characters used to have a game of dominoes at each pub as well as a pint ! |
| 13 | Managers whose consciences tell them that service users ought to have a voice often choose just one articulate , recovered , temporary recipient of the service as a token single voice of the mental health planning committee , where this lone individual often feels at a serious disadvantage , confused by professional jargon and out of his or her depth in the complex and confusing world of statutory agency planning . |
| 14 | Two buggers used to fill a bucket . ’ |
| 15 | There were n't many facilities for games , but the boys used to kick a football about the yard , and the girls played rounders . |
| 16 | ‘ A couple of boys used to make a thing about getting pretty drunk and then going out , ’ said one of the interviewees . |
| 17 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
| 18 | Men and women , they 'd just fight each other but women used to have a go , ar argue not f particularly fighting but you know falling out . |
| 19 | In practice the maximum attenuation is finite and depends on the quality of the components used to construct an approximation to the theoretical circuit of figure 8.10(a) . |
| 20 | The old soldiers used to sing a song about him called 'get up to the front Tom Brodie . ' |
| 21 | Cubans used to eat a lot of meat . |
| 22 | Japanese engineers reckon that ships with SEMP drives ought to fill a niche between conventional bulk-carriers and speedy surface-skimming craft — providing a means of carrying , say , 300–400 passengers at 25–30 knots . |
| 23 | Now applied to a form of footwear , this term originally referred to the tapes or straps used to fasten a shoe over the foot or round the ankle . |
| 24 | To measure a ship 's speed , medieval sailors used to throw a log on a length of knotted rope over the side and then count off the knots . |