Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm sorry , Rosalind , ’ Peggy began in a rather shaky voice , ‘ but your letter got damaged and the policeman did n't think it ought to go in the post with a tear in it and so we came — ‘
2 I feel it ought to go before the A G M rather than just be agreed .
3 Certainly there is abundant evidence for the extraction of salt from sea water around the Wash , but so far no settlement has been found to match the name ; on the distance from London alone , it ought to lie in the Sleaford or Heckington area .
4 The regional nomarch , or prefect , tells each local office how much it ought to collect in the year ( the national total being what the government reckons the budget needs ) .
5 Complain that the Committee is not getting the coverage it ought to have for the work it 's doing .
6 A number of important points emerged from the Vice-President 's speech indicating the creation of more coherent Government attitudes to the press : these concerned its role , the limits there should be to its activities and the relationship it ought to have with the Government .
7 On 18 September , Environment Minister Chris Patten flew to Brussels for talks with Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana , according to The Times still ‘ optimistic that he could head off threatened prosecution of Britain by the European Court ’ by showing that ‘ Britain was doing everything it could to comply with the European drinking water legislation . ’
8 Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se
9 Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ?
10 ‘ Gold Monogram at Only Five Ninety-Nine Extra , ’ it used to say on the sign . ’
11 It had yellow hair and it used to swim in the sea when we chucked sticks for it .
12 Now after the er there was a incident at erm the er engine shed , er the stabling of the locomotive was transferred away , erm and it used to travel at the end of the day over to the er or , or er engine shed , where it er stayed for the stayed for the night .
13 It used to get to the point where I was completely shattered but I would n't ask her to take over and yet she would n't offer .
14 I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference .
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