Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are working within a straight jacket imposed by central government , but our choice was that budget , for all its faults in totality , for the fact that it was half a million less than it could be , and the budget put forward by the Labour party who had totally refused to negotiate on their budget , and therefore we ought to look at that budget in detail to see what was on offer , because it was n't very pretty . |
| 2 | I do n't think we 're gon na solve it today , but what I 'm saying is did we ought to look at some sort of action plan brainstorm , call it what you will for the very near future to look at how we 're gon na tackle this problem . |
| 3 | Er , now the county really ought to look at this problem of grass growing over the pavement but the Cou Borough Council are using the shields that are not capable of cutting grass edges , grass verges . |
| 4 | So I , and , and to be honest I think that 's what we ought to do at this stage , |
| 5 | But I I do you know I 've been back since but I just could n't find it now , but there it 'll be , but on the side of the er at , he used to preach at this mission , there was only him you know used to preach , and I do n't know how many other people were at , it would n't hold above er would n't hold above thirty . |
| 6 | Me father used to sit at one side of the fireplace and me aunt at the other one , and they would sit and talk about the Bible . |
| 7 | In the past , according to Mackenzie , they used to sit at opposite ends of the site firing off hostile letters to each other . |
| 8 | DiCillo , who adapted Johnny Suede from a monologue he used to perform at downtown New York clubs , says casting the lead was the most depressing experience of his life — until Pitt showed up . |
| 9 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 10 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 11 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 12 | A group of like-minded individuals used to meet at each other 's house on a Monday nearest the full moon . |
| 13 | We used to play at various pubs , and the Pidar Wakefield in Grays Inn Road with The Pogues . |
| 14 | W. S. The Black Maria used to call at different stations at two in the morning and take the prisoners from there to Cheapside . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to return to the nice friendly atmosphere we used to have at this club with Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in charge and chairman Albert Alexander , who left everyone to get on with their job . |
| 16 | And they used to moan at each other : ‘ Your system sounds different from my system … |
| 17 | ‘ Lucky me , ’ I ought to say at this point with whatever the typographical symbol for a wink and a leer is . |
| 18 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |