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Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb mod] to " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The people who run them shops ought to be tried at the Old Bailey and given years of 'ard labour .
2	Yeah well she 's friendly , well my mum used to be really really good friends with her and then my parents split up and , and like they , they went like water to my dad 's side
3	It comes with 4Mb of RAM as standard , which in my books ought to be bumped up to 8Mb for a server .
4	Jay had no inclination to go through the who are you , what do you do , oh really , gosh my brother-in-law used to be in the same field .
5	Two of my brothers used to be car mechanics and would use ANYTHING washing up liquid , bleach , industrial strength cleaner to get those tell-tale oily fingernails clean before they ventured out on a date .
6	Now he 's got his arm round where my waist used to be .
7	They 'd have a little fancy shawl or My Grandma used to always have a fancy shawl that Just a small thing that came , you know , a bit down their back and And my Grandma used to wear erm a white much It was just thing like a baby 's A cotton thing , tied with a just a string , you know just to erm just a tie under her chin and it would have a wee bit of lace s on the corner , or the or the end of the tie , that was through the day and it was all ruffled , and then when she was on holiday and came into town she had a a thing on her head made of velvet and it all had fancy little things in it .
8	My gran used to always used to do that .
9	I used to do that when my gran used to , when I was a little girl when erm , my grandmother used to make cakes and she always used to save it for for me .
10	My name used to be Rhodesia .
11	Erm we boys , my father used to s what we call stud our shoes , and they were round sort of metal studs , and these were sort of knocked into your soles to save the leather .
12	‘ My father used to be a member of the County Cricket Club . ’
13	And my father used to gilly in the Summertime .
14	I can remember Carole my father used to ah ! now and
15	My mate used to .
16	And er we er tt we er we made er a lot of blackout stuff during the war , we had they called the Federation of British Industries , which was an annual fair at Birmingham , and my firm used to s used to exhibit there .
17	That gap where my fireplace used to be ,
18	And my brother and my grandfather used to and my great grandfather they all took helped on the loch you see .
19	I felt sickly occasionally but I felt really happy throughout my pregnancy.I used to be quite shy but since I found out I was pregnant I felt very confident in myself .
20	I run the tips of my fingers over this beard at difficult moments and am reassured by its fibrous smoothness as much as my son used to be , when he was a little younger , by the feel of his old piece of blanket .
21	My mother used to be in
22	My mother used to er whe when we were younger used to come down the for a days ' scrubbing , charring .
23	‘ Their reactions ought to be recorded , ’ he believes , ‘ even if they get out of the City . ’
24	When our modern ladies shall follow such examples in everything their plea ought to be allowed in this .
25	While the BBC had remained a monopoly , television viewers had no programme choices nor , for that matter , could there be any argument as to which institution ought to be allocated the revenue obtained from the licence tee .
26	This would imply that if supplemental oxygen is given its administration ought to be extended into the postgastroscopy period .
27	Is my right hon. Friend aware that her Department may to some extent be missing the point ?
28	Which test ought to be the standard for judicial review ?
29	Their influence used to be great .
30	The collected volume of his Seventy eight studies from Nature ( 1809 ) contains an 8-page discourse entitled ‘ A Few Observations with respect to the mode in which Plantations ought to be Conducted . ’