Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't think people ought to enjoy things . ’ |
| 2 | Try as the commission might to smooth things over , the ’ social dimension ’ seems bound to arouse passion for a while yet . |
| 3 | I was determined to keep control and do as much as I could to help things on . |
| 4 | We ought to run things properly and see if we ca n't do things better in future . ’ |
| 5 | Ours was called Woolly Jump and she what she used to do she used to carry things into her den into er into er part of er a sort of little lobby that was all hers |
| 6 | Mrs Marriot was a woman up our street who used to sell things in her front room . |
| 7 | They used to nick things like shoes , bits of jewellery and cars . |
| 8 | Or was it because it was Finn who kissed her and not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself when she used to imagine things like that , in the past ? |
| 9 | Defending barrister Thomas Teague told Mr Jones yesterday : ‘ You used to steal things from your foster parents and you used to give them to other children at school . |
| 10 | Before I used to do things by instinct . ’ |
| 11 | We used to do things that way and British Airways made a thumping loss as a result . |
| 12 | I , I think it was only a drop in the ocean really towards the national effort , but , but I remember erm at Darlaston , they used to build tanks over there and they , they used to pay us visits in sometimes they 'd send some of their men over in the tanks to give us a pep talk about the war effort and all that but er , they used to do things like that then to gee you up erm |
| 13 | ‘ Hotels like this never used to have things like tea and coffee facilities and colour TV but now it 's expected . |
| 14 | I mean they used to take things er the wedding ring , the jewellery if they 'd got any , towels , sheets , er suits , shoes , er did n't did n't want to sell them , did n't want to get rid of them , they just wanted to borrow money on those , and he used to charge you interest and ticket money when you took it in , and then you 'd got to pay interest when you took it out as well so it was , they were on a good thing . |
| 15 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 16 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 17 | and when he used to say things about cards , I said you ca n't do that , but because he were who he is we had to shut our mouth |
| 18 | And his Daddy used to bring things with him . ’ |
| 19 | Umm yes I do have I have n't brought it with me but I do have a book at home that that erm in that showed you know the pieces of fabric that you had left over from doing all this , erm I 've got a pattern that my mother actually used to make things that were very are now very unpopular for my children . |
| 20 | She used to make things that are now quite commonplace but which at the time seemed really exotic — fabulous cakes like kugelhopf and filled croissants which were wheeled in on a trolley for tea . |
| 21 | The other thing that tends to happen in post-olympic years is people look at rule books and different types of competition and there is a sort of atmosphere of I think we ought to change things . |
| 22 | I 'm twice your age , I ought to take things like this in my stride — Christ only knows it 's not the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've done the best we can to put things right . |