Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stepping carefully over the gutter , Gonzalo remarked that I ought to wear a coat like he did . |
| 2 | ‘ I wondered whether I ought to organize a tap on her phone . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe I ought to take a look at her family . ’ |
| 4 | And the other one , I wonder if the Council would consider , over sixties club , I ought to declare an interest I suppose , erm have two hundred members and they are distributing this Christmas , as they al always do , a three pound voucher to each of those members in office you know and I just wondered whether the Council would consider a small contribution towards that expenditure . |
| 5 | Perhaps I ought to see a doctor . ’ |
| 6 | Maybe I ought to see a doctor about my acid content or something . |
| 7 | I did n't pay the Africa lady anything but I ought to make a bit for Uncle Jim . |
| 8 | yes I see , I think er unfortunately doctor I in this particular case I ought to make an order for certificate for counsel erm in the current , in respect of the costs incurred below on the thirteenth of August seems to me do er the proper kind of case in which to instruct counsel . |
| 9 | But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while |
| 10 | mm , perhaps I ought to have a go at Nicks |
| 11 | When her younger brother tried to challenge her inheritance from her mother , ‘ I told him that though he was now the heir , as being son , yet I was two years the elder by my birth , and though he had got the birthright , yet I ought to have a share of her blessing . ’ |
| 12 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 13 | Even my doctor said I ought to have an abortion , because of my age . |
| 14 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 15 | Before I got married I used to go a church twice a day . |
| 16 | I used to wear a bra the same size as my mother 's , size 40 it used to be , but I just seemed to dry up completely . |
| 17 | ‘ I used to wear an earring at the time . |
| 18 | I used to wear an Afro . |
| 19 | I used to spend a lot of time in demanding places like the Andes and in remote parts of Africa . |
| 20 | Joanna said , ‘ I had an uncle — he 's dead now , but I used to spend a lot of time in his surgery — and , apart from the essentials , he never went in for what he called expensive gimmicks . |
| 21 | I used to spend an hour a day on him . ’ |
| 22 | I used to paint a lot . |
| 23 | Erm I used to carry a lot especially in in Summer . |
| 24 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 25 | And of course my work here , I used to do in I used to plant a lot in . |
| 26 | I thought it would be quicker , you see and I 'd been in the services as well , because I used to give a subscription to British Legion |
| 27 | ‘ When I was 16 and modelling , I got very interested because I used to see a lot of Geminis and Libras who had a lot in common , ’ says Teri . |
| 28 | Because I used to say a solicitor would only cost half what a bank would . |
| 29 | I used to put a mop on my head and pretend it was my hair . |
| 30 | Apparently I used to talk a bit like a thick northernish |