Example sentences of "we [modal v] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we ought to stress that evolution is not spurred simplistically on by ‘ random mutation ’ , as the Oxford zoologist Richard Dawkins points out in his book The Blind Watchmaker . |
| 2 | We ought to leave this place at once . |
| 3 | I do n't know if there 's anything on tomorrow Maybe we ought to go this evening if she 's there to work . |
| 4 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 5 | I think we ought to remove that list . |
| 6 | I think we ought to get some kip . |
| 7 | Oh , hang on David I think we ought to have that jumper off you . |
| 8 | We had to put a bloke in hospital there ; and so the owd skipper say to me : ‘ Boy , ’ he says , ‘ we ought to have another hand . |
| 9 | That 's why I think we ought to have another quote for the roof actually . |
| 10 | Perhaps we ought to have some lunch ? ’ |
| 11 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 12 | I do n't want to rush you but I 've booked at the bistro down the road for nine o'clock so we ought to have this drink and go . ’ |
| 13 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 14 | I think we ought to make some understanding of the sort of pressures that the man was under at the time when all this happened , and it happened very quickly . ’ |
| 15 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 16 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 17 | We used to put these herren up for red-herren during the winter , and we 'd probably put three lots or consignments . |
| 18 | And erm we used to kick this tin down the hill and er as I say it would roll down and we would all go and hide anywhere , back garden , front garden , over a wall , round a corner , anywhere like that you see . |
| 19 | Sir , we used to joke that truth is always stranger than fiction . |
| 20 | We used t er we used whistle , we used to blow this whistle and tell him what material we wanted , do you see ? |
| 21 | Yeah , what we call a new cut , we dredge right opposite the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all and we used to do that tide time , had to work at ti tides , when it 's high tide , cos that otherwise there were n't any water there at all . |
| 22 | ‘ We used to do that sort of thing in Paris . |
| 23 | We used to do any typing that was needed for the Aurae Phiala publications , and for the few little books and articles Stephen occasionally produced . |
| 24 | Not every Saturday morning but we used to do this job . |
| 25 | Yeah I used to like , we used to see each other sort of and I |
| 26 | And erm so we started the Brownies and I could train them and we used to have such fun together , you know |
| 27 | We used to have some fun with that . |
| 28 | Oh ah we used to get together and we used to discuss each other you know what we could take and what we could n't take . |
| 29 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 30 | We used to send each other pictures . |