Example sentences of "he [modal v] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Radji thinks he ought to go back to Teheran so as not to be lumped with the more infamous of the Shahs associates " in peoples minds . |
| 2 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 3 | But since it is quite unfair that the intention of the deceased should be deceived by a freedman , he ought to make over to the testator 's sons the hundred left to him , as in a similar case our late Emperor Marcus also made this ruling . |
| 4 | He had a kind of surf-board on roller-skates which he used to lie on to slide under the chassis , propelling himself with his padded stump . |
| 5 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 6 | Before that , he used to go up to London and try to visit her . ’ |
| 7 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 8 | He bought the car off my boy i i it was worth five thousand odd , it was worth and he , he used to cart me about , see just you know , Steve did , before he , we got this money he used to go up to what is that ? |
| 9 | He used to go down to Cardiff from London for big games , rarely missing an International unless someone like Hamlet intervened . |
| 10 | At nights he used to go down to the shore and look out across the sea you see and he wondered what was happening back home at Greentoft and fairly homesick . |
| 11 | But he used to go down to Pearson 's house in Beckenham , Kent and spend time with his children , Simon and Patrick . |
| 12 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
| 13 | My old man said he 's erm , he used to go down to er , every , every sort of six months or so , cos they were in he was in charge of fucking then , he 'd used to have to go on manoeuvre 's about sort of six monthly or something like that |
| 14 | He used to get up to all kinds of high jinks on those trips , by all accounts . |
| 15 | He 'd tell him , he 'd get his orders from the office , cos the Deputy Harbourmaster he would go down all the sound he sound in river and see what wanted taken out , then he 'd say to my father I 'll dredge at so and so belo below docksill and docksill what they used to do they used to , my father what he 'd do he 'd put stakes on the mud , a short stake and a long stake on account of the tide and he 'd , he 'd make an imaginary on that stake , then he 'd go ashore at Wolverston , phone up what have you got on your docksill , the fella might say it 's ten feet , well he 'd say right we 'll make that twenty feet , so that 's er , that 's what he used to work on to dredge the river . |
| 16 | Gabi told me he used to play along to Django Reinhardt and Count Basie records — if you wanted to hear Gabby play One O'Clock Jump then you had it , he could play all that shit . |
| 17 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 18 | He used to come round to the house , a few years ago , before he took up so much with the Labour Party . " |
| 19 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |
| 20 | He used to come over to us a lot at weekends , along with another character called Bob Brown , who lived at Blackton and who was a bachelor brother of my great-aunt 's husband . |
| 21 | He used to come down to school in the afternoon sometimes , to stay a while talking generally , and I found his visits very helpful . |