Example sentences of "you [vb mod] to have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ought to have a holiday . ’ |
| 2 | You ought to have a day off yourself . ’ |
| 3 | Well , without getting too technical about it , I think you ought to have a comma after one because in the erm , y you know , the erm , blurb they gave you on the left hand side , that would apply what you 've learnt on the left hand side . |
| 4 | Perhaps you ought to have a word with the kitchen staff , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 5 | Erm it would seem to me therefore that if we 're working in terms of ticks and crosses , that area likely to meet Gre Greater York needs , you ought to have a tick against all of them . |
| 6 | I mean was this er a possibility that you ought to have a pizza |
| 7 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 8 | ‘ You ought to have a pain in your tongue not your leg , then you might not use it so much . ’ |
| 9 | Oh you ought to have a big'un then keep your spare tyre in |
| 10 | ‘ I thought you ought to have a room with a double bed , for when your boyfriend comes to visit you . ’ |
| 11 | Then as her gaze focused unconsciously on the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , she found herself remembering what Silvia had said : ‘ I thought you ought to have a room with a double bed , for when your boyfriend comes to visit you ’ . |
| 12 | You ought to have a quilt for the summer . |
| 13 | And then you you used to have a blow lamp to heat it up and after that you you erm put it on half compression and you were turning one of the big flywheels round until it it started and you had to keep the blowlamp on it . |
| 14 | You used to have a story book when I was a kid , there was a witch called Jenny Green Thing |
| 15 | I can re I can recall when you used to have a couple of weeks of er bad weather before Christmas , snow and that , and sometimes even Christmas s er snow on Christmas day |
| 16 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 17 | Now being late , the headmaster always dealt with you fro being late , that was n't a teacher 's responsibility at all.You used to have to line up all those boys that were late , you used to have to line up outside the the headmaster 's room , one at a time , I I jus on each hand , you used to have a cane on each hand . |
| 18 | That 's a bit like erm did n't you used to have a word box with words in ? |
| 19 | No I know you used to have a price . |
| 20 | You know you used to have a choice of jobs but you do n't now . |
| 21 | What happened you used to have a pin and a button and a a reel of cotton . |
| 22 | You used to have a casting |
| 23 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 24 | And the hot water system was a little boiler at the side of the fire as well and you used to have a ladle and take it out of the out of the er out of the boiler on the side . |
| 25 | This was while we were still at scho Well , you used to have a week off of school , my darling , for tater-picking , only . |