Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coaches ought to know what the children should be practising . |
| 2 | Perhaps I ought to know what the scenario was . |
| 3 | They said they would , but they said you ought to give us the surname . |
| 4 | We used to speculate what the dish could have been . |
| 5 | It used to annoy her the way everybody took no notice . |
| 6 | I did n't like him , he used to give me the creeps , but he was n't that sort . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Christ that used to give me the shits , ’ said the New Zealander . |
| 8 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 9 | The cane , cane and strap you used to have , the teacher used to give us the strap , the headmaster used to give us the cane . |
| 10 | They used to give us the creeps . ’ |
| 11 | The cane , cane and strap you used to have , the teacher used to give us the strap , the headmaster used to give us the cane . |
| 12 | I used to cut them all up and they used to leave me the legs , you know , the hams and the backs and they used to have a few joints off and take home and then the rest I used to lay it , put it into bacon down the cellar . |
| 13 | C they used to call them the horse boxes . |
| 14 | Oh to get your bargains oh yes they would n't , there were n't really good fridges in those days , there was co col cold rooms but erm they would be glad to get rid of the meat that they 'd already got cut up you see , and the barker , they used to call them the barkers , standing outside you see and get your fresh meat and so on , so on , so on , so you know and er to get the custom in you see , oh there was real competition between the barkers and there were barkers standing in road . |
| 15 | We used to call him the Butcher . ’ |
| 16 | My mother used to call him the Sage in bloom , ’ she added , ‘ when he was chasing women , that was . ’ |
| 17 | And er the old man , they they used to call him the iron man and he was the iron man . |
| 18 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 19 | They used to call it the asylum , years ago . |
| 20 | I used to call it the back of actually . |
| 21 | I used to call it the spook walk . |
| 22 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 23 | Now Saturday night in Street , we used to call it the waits , Street waits , every Saturday night . |
| 24 | In fact , they used to call it the gun for the wild ducks do you see . |
| 25 | ‘ After she moved to the Villa Souleiado Philippe used to bring me the paintings to sign , or I 'd go there and do it . |
| 26 | We had friends who were able to — like a Lebanese friend I 've got , he was er arranging — he used to bring us the food and water and things like that . |
| 27 | So you ought to show me the door today ! ’ |