Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 2 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 3 | Well I mean it ought to have gone by next week , but be alright . |
| 4 | He felt strangely inactive , as if he ought to offer to help in some way ; pour glasses of juice perhaps . |
| 5 | As a result , while the right approach is to take the most positive steps that we can to help to deal with that problem , we have a duty to our own people also to ensure that we maintain that elementary , basic , minimum safeguard of our own nuclear deterrent . |