Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I ought to put that teddy in his cot ? |
| 2 | Just as there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This is a pleasant experience ’ to saying ‘ This is a good thing ’ , so there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This act will produce the best consequences ’ to saying ‘ I ought to do this act ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
| 4 | I ought to start this note with a health warning — it contains some mathematics ; not a lot , but some . |
| 5 | ‘ I ought to get some sleep , ’ he said , but the coke had taken hold , it was lifting him , and he had such a good seat at the circus , he did n't really want to leave . |
| 6 | All Americans go Eh Nine o'clock tomorrow I 'm going over to Kate ten thirty that gives me a bit of lee-way I 've got a at ten I thought it was ten thirty I ought to get some money out really You 're not going into Woking tomorrow morning are you doing your quiz ? |
| 7 | I used to love that place . |
| 8 | ‘ Whenever I went out of my house I used to see any number of revolting things . |
| 9 | I know , I went , I got some whelks once and that was in Bay , they were lovely whelks and I put 'em in a bucket and er did n't think and now I used to put some flour in with 'em . |
| 10 | I used to hate it when Nanny put rags in my hair and , whenever I had a wish , I used to wish that mine was curly like yours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I used to take this lad for walks and he was forever saying ‘ Beckus my old grey mare ’ . |
| 12 | And I used to use this flat because although I had to pay Dad a bit of rent , of course , it was quite low . |
| 13 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 14 | I used to do this thing about being tucked up by my mother at night . |
| 15 | I , I , I 'm very concerned , erm , about this because er , I used to deliver this dip , and I , I 'm concerned er , about my staff , and there 's been lots of cases that have claimed that this er , dip has affected people . |
| 16 | I used to pay this friend to go like into Tesco 's . |
| 17 | In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once . |
| 18 | I used to feel that way about Old Mother Walsh 's snake when I was a little kid . |
| 19 | ‘ It sounds so silly when I think about it now , ’ says a disappointed daughter in Pitkeathley 's book , ‘ but I used to have this image of us sitting together in the afternoons . |
| 20 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to run that business back in the late 1960s and early 1970s , ’ he recalls . |
| 22 | So , in closing I would to take this opportunity to apologise for a late magazine last Autumn , it was the only hiccup in the new system , and assure members that , despite losing our magazine to outsiders for a little while , it is well worth it … happy reading . |
| 23 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 24 | She supposed that she ought to spend more time at the place , but was always thankful when she was once again on the road back to London . |
| 25 | If Mrs Richards has been here so long , she ought to have some kind of permanent record , to help new staff like me . ’ |
| 26 | And she said and she said thank you she said , Miss Anderson she said she ought to have more sense than come in a thing like that she said to the officers . |
| 27 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 28 | Lillie , Lillie , we was playing darts on Monday , came out from the ladies toilets ' and said You ought to see that skirting board , it 's all coming away and rotting . |
| 29 | I suppose you ought to call that reform , in any language , eh ? |
| 30 | Section er , I was very surprised indeed that er Hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all one 's experience and I am sure as well tells us that this is a success story , it is something that petition after petition that we 've asking to keep it that way , shows that it is one of the services that the County provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we ca n't say that in all County Councils ' services but you can say it about er the section seventeen and I think you ought to acknowledge that Chairman . |