Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 2 | I suppose I ought to organise some curtains , but I never shut them so it 's hardly a priority . |
| 3 | I ought to get some vegetables today I suppose . |
| 4 | ‘ I ought to get these keys to the garage . ’ |
| 5 | When I was at Notts County , I used to score more goals in the second half of the season . |
| 6 | The God of my far-off country must remember that I used to pray four times a day and still love me . |
| 7 | ‘ When I came to Easington to buy the shop I used to wear tinted glasses , ’ says Italo . |
| 8 | When my mum started training to become a probation officer , I used to spend two hours alone after school . |
| 9 | I used to leave two pints or three pints there depending what they wanted . |
| 10 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 11 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 12 | BEFORE I realised the birds were my occasional allies , I used to do unkind things to them : fish for them , shoot them , tie them to stakes at low tide , put electrically detonated bombs under their nests , and so on . |
| 13 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 14 | So I used to do both jobs , sign you in then rush to the bar . |
| 15 | For while I felt a terrible failure and I used to read endless books and articles on divorce . |
| 16 | I used to think all poets were Byronic — |
| 17 | I used to think all poets were Byronic . |
| 18 | I used to think all poets were Byronic — |
| 19 | " I used to think these places were terrible , before I came here , but it 's marvellous , " says one of the mothers whose two boys regard the refuge as " our new house " . |
| 20 | I used to work four nights and er working all day in the shop , working all night in there . |
| 21 | I used to work seven days ' a week and I , I used to play football . |
| 22 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 23 | In the past , habit is expressed by used to or , when a number of habits are referred to , would may be used : I used to walk three miles to school ( every morning ) when I was a child ; He would wake up at about 6.30 . |
| 24 | ‘ When I was young , I used to keep all sorts of tropical fish in a tank . |
| 25 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 26 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 27 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
| 28 | Owen and I used to have regular pillow-fights . |
| 29 | I used to have odd problems creating graphs — I never could remember the optimum order to do them in . |
| 30 | Also from a very early age I used to have erotic fantasies about ships in storms or ships sinking . |