Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all ought to have a look , did n't we ? |
| 2 | This only ought to take a couple of minutes , then she could be on her way to find out more about the attic . |
| 3 | school holidays we only used to get a month they get about six weeks now I think but no we used to get a month 's holiday then . |
| 4 | I just used to do a bit of cottaging , picking people up , particularly during the war ; that was the heyday in picking people up so easily — in crowded trains , in the blackout — but it was always just the one-off . |
| 5 | I 've usually been , been senior secretary , I 've usually been the one in charge of the petty cash , which , sent out for proper coffee and the new kettle if the kettle blew it 's fused and the and the tea pot and the tea bags and the , I just used to write a note in the , in the cash book |
| 6 | He always used to wear a bowler hat and very dark clothes . |
| 7 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 8 | They 've changed all the things that used to be just because they know Like form twos always used to have an end of term leaving party . |
| 9 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 10 | People say , oh that 's very expensive but in fact if you think about it , it probably ought to cost a lot more . |
| 11 | ‘ I also used to have a temper , ’ Edward said , ‘ but it seems to be drawn off now in work . ’ |
| 12 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 13 | A senior minister , looking at the vast new platform which turned the Winter Gardens into a television set , suggested that it really ought to contain a pantheon for past leaders . |
| 14 | ‘ We really ought to make a start on getting this place cleaned up , you know . |
| 15 | ‘ End of an era ’ is a phrase too often used to lament a death , but in her case it is appropriate . |
| 16 | And , and the men they of often used to have a go . |
| 17 | Did I tell you he even used to have a name for it ? |
| 18 | The small reedy pools nearby used to have a population of mallard , teal and black-headed gulls in summer as well as a pair of red-throated divers , but the hoodies have spoiled all that . |
| 19 | And I could tell you another story as well , I maybe used to pinch an apple out of one of the barrels . |
| 20 | Well I suppose you see maybe what they 're trying to do I mean as far as I know I mean previously the Inland Revenue or the valuation office part of the Inland Revenue they actually used to run a scheme where |
| 21 | We never used to kill a bullock straight home from market . |
| 22 | I never used to prepare a question , I just used to turn up , think ‘ This is good ’ and have a drink with them and try to be funny about it later . ’ |
| 23 | He never used to make a fuss about anything . |