Example sentences of "i [modal v] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I ought to put that teddy in his cot ? |
| 2 | Just as there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This is a pleasant experience ’ to saying ‘ This is a good thing ’ , so there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This act will produce the best consequences ’ to saying ‘ I ought to do this act ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
| 4 | I ought to start this note with a health warning — it contains some mathematics ; not a lot , but some . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I used to love that place . |
| 8 | ‘ Whenever I went out of my house I used to see any number of revolting things . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I used to hate it when Nanny put rags in my hair and , whenever I had a wish , I used to wish that mine was curly like yours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I used to take this lad for walks and he was forever saying ‘ Beckus my old grey mare ’ . |
| 12 | And I used to use this flat because although I had to pay Dad a bit of rent , of course , it was quite low . |
| 13 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 14 | I used to do this thing about being tucked up by my mother at night . |
| 15 | I , I , I 'm very concerned , erm , about this because er , I used to deliver this dip , and I , I 'm concerned er , about my staff , and there 's been lots of cases that have claimed that this er , dip has affected people . |
| 16 | I used to pay this friend to go like into Tesco 's . |
| 17 | In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once . |
| 18 | I used to feel that way about Old Mother Walsh 's snake when I was a little kid . |
| 19 | ‘ It sounds so silly when I think about it now , ’ says a disappointed daughter in Pitkeathley 's book , ‘ but I used to have this image of us sitting together in the afternoons . |
| 20 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to run that business back in the late 1960s and early 1970s , ’ he recalls . |
| 22 | So , in closing I would to take this opportunity to apologise for a late magazine last Autumn , it was the only hiccup in the new system , and assure members that , despite losing our magazine to outsiders for a little while , it is well worth it … happy reading . |
| 23 | If someone tells me used to do that aswell Ill believe it , and put him up there with Melvyn . |