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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 've got a tutorial shortly , and I ought to sober up a bit betweentimes . ’
2	If you happen to be serving , but I used to serve quite a lot myself .
3	Originally when I first went there I used to go twice a week .
4	Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot .
5	Then came the period when I used to hang out a lot just with DeFries and we 'd drive down to David and Angie 's place in Beckenham , Haddon Hall , on Sundays , and Angie would cook and we 'd sit around .
6	Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice .
7	‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’
8	Oh ours was like that , you know , I used to feel quite a shame
9	I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’
10	I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops .
11	Erm , but you wo n't remember all the things to test , as you forget very quickly , so as you 're building the spreadsheet , you ought to write down a list of things you 're going to go back and test .
12	‘ Perhaps you ought to make up a party with your parents , ’ Isobel said dutifully .
13	You used to come once a week for dinner
14	So what is it did you used to have more f er was it okay at first I mean you used to have quite a few friends when you first move in ?
15	So w did you used to have quite a lot of customers who came up from th from there
16	‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ .
17	Before we start slapping all sorts of controls and restrictions on cars , we ought to find out a little more about the effect that they are really having on the environment .
18	‘ We used to lie around a swimming pool in Peking chatting like the best of friends , ’ he later recalled , ‘ But it was all too sickeningly sweet …
19	Very , very high gear on it , we used to go out a couple of us
20	We used to go once a month you know when the girls were in the Guides , used to go for their parade service and if you were at Auckley , Malcolm and I used to go up with Heidi did n't I ?
21	We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles .
22	We used to grow quite a bit of stuff on the land and er we lived .
23	We used to have quite a good time .
24	Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved .
25	I said to Bet I said they ought to write out a cheque on the end .
26	in exchange and they used to do quite a trade in , cos a lot of them were quite skilled at making toys .
27	They used to travel around a lot , handing out leaflets and things .
28	But Ramsay , concerned at this display of Dunbar 's attitude , decided that he ought to stay on a little longer at Berwick , in Seton 's support .
29	That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece .
30	I was reading in the paper this morning , a chap , he 's a director of a big company in Birmingham , who was the world 's number one football fan , he used to spend about a thousand a year watching football , you know .