Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
| 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 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 . |
| 4 | I ought to get some vegetables today I suppose . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If Mrs Richards has been here so long , she ought to have some kind of permanent record , to help new staff like me . ’ |
| 8 | The Girl was explaining how she thought perhaps she ought to make some kind of thanks to them for their hospitality . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , you ought to do some jobs . |
| 10 | You ought to show some interest . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now I think you ought to get some sleep , Aunt Sarah , ’ Ruth said . |
| 12 | Then he added , ‘ You ought to get some sleep . |
| 13 | ‘ It was hard work but you used to have some enjoyment out of yourself . |
| 14 | I think we ought to get some kip . |
| 15 | ‘ He ought to have some painkillers , ’ said Phil , ‘ and we ought to get some fluids into him . |
| 16 | Perhaps we ought to have some lunch ? ’ |
| 17 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 18 | I think we ought to make some understanding of the sort of pressures that the man was under at the time when all this happened , and it happened very quickly . ’ |
| 19 | And then we used to put some coops there and small runs for them and we used to carry them there , every night because they settled down better in the night than in the daytime . |
| 20 | We had a little garden in the front and we used to put er a in in in the in in on the soil and we used to put some crumbs on on a on a plate you know . |
| 21 | We used to have some fun with that . |
| 22 | . And we used to have er we used to have some donkeys , and we used to have to get those ticked . |
| 23 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 24 | And used to happen twice a year and erm sometimes somebody 'd remember my birthday or find that I had my birthday or and at Christmas time we used to get some money . |
| 25 | Whether they love it or hate it , they ought to acquire some knowledge of it . |
| 26 | Yes I I do I think the bank 's big mistake is their obsession with security cover erm and I think they ought to develop some expertise in judgement of people 's management and entrepreneurial abilities . |
| 27 | Well all the way from , they used to come from and they used to have some sunbonnets on , I always remember they used to have the , I 'm not a dressmaker but you know a la they do n't like frills down the back that used to hang down the back and the I remember them coming round selling blocks of salt . |
| 28 | They used to have some sort of test on that . |
| 29 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 30 | Having acquired a wife , Leslie began to think that he ought to take some steps towards securing our future . |