Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , maybe we ought to give up work . |
| 2 | That 's where us used to go up night times when it was raining and that cold . ’ |
| 3 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 4 | It also contained a brief description of the 30 different social care services offered , the types of patient eligible to use them , and copies of the referral form and the form used to carry out core assessments . |
| 5 | eventually they went bankrupt , Florrie is an of mine , she used to work there part time and she always enjoyed it , she 's been there say twenty years , she just came back from holiday and found the place is closed down and none of for the past er fifteen months he 'd been there , that past fifteen months none of their part time staff had their stamps put on their cards , so for their , for their pension |
| 6 | ‘ I used to work back east , ’ he said . |
| 7 | They used to give us gum and sweets everything and the , they sometimes , the military police they used to come down town and they 'd be after deserters from Lichfield and |
| 8 | I used to wonder why father and grandfather never shot them , just to get rid of the fear . ’ |
| 9 | His mouth gave a wry twist as he remembered an old lady in his home town who used to buy up sympathy cards by the dozen . |
| 10 | I Spare time as a school boy , I used to play either football in the winter or cricket in the summer . |
| 11 | AVON : David McConnell used to give away cologne as a come-on for his door-to-door book sales . |
| 12 | . My son used to Do n't shout at them mother , he said . |
| 13 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 14 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |
| 15 | And we used to have long skipping ropes too . |
| 16 | These three , of the five extant Lalande motet scores with timings , are thus the most significant and useful with respect to Lalande 's performance practice in ( 1 ) calculating quite precise speeds for most movements , ( 2 ) establishing others by reference to traditional proportions , and ( 3 ) facilitating comparisons of speeds established by such timings with the verbal indications so often used to denote both tempo and other performance directions in this repertory . |
| 17 | The buses used to start from their to Hampton , and there used to be a place where they would leave newspapers and they put , put a er box there by that and people used to take out newspaper and put the money into the box and er , you ca n't dream of that sort of thing now . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to throw away plastic razors all the time . |
| 19 | They were n't , one or two seemed to hang around that thing where they used to throw out food to them . |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder if I ought to take up weight-lifting . ’ |
| 21 | They ought to hand out gear instead of ice cream to the kids ’ |