Example sentences of "you [vb mod] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a scene in the showers and when it was over , Kenneth came up to me and said , ‘ Oh you ought to have seen all the people gathering around you ’ . |
| 2 | You ought to have took that three grand |
| 3 | If he succumbs to temptation after all and suffers the consequences , it would be to the point to say ‘ You should have known better ’ or ‘ You ought to have had more sense ’ , reproaches which derive their authority from ‘ Face facts ’ ; but it would be irrelevant ( and exasperating ) to say ‘ You should n't have made yourself ill like that ’ , on the authority of the ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ of the practical syllogism interpreted as ‘ Do n't get sick ’ . |
| 4 | And er lace what 's got all the scallops round , well you used to have to do that . |
| 5 | I remember cutting out when you used to have to cut all down your rolls of wallpaper . |
| 6 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 7 | Then in back end they used to empty this crew yard and you used to have to handle all that with forks , muck forks , they used to call them , and that was big biggest fork and by God , they used to pull your heart out . |