Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 2 | You know , Joe ’ — he leant towards him now , a wide grin spreading over his face — ‘ I used to wet me pants every Sunday morning . |
| 3 | And then I used to bank I used to post put that in the post office in a separate account , I did n't use it you see . |
| 4 | But er I used to go I did n't eat with the men you were n't allowed to eat with the men you see , it was only the full men that sat round this table well |
| 5 | Every time we used to fight from then on , I used to pretend I was Johnson and the other kid used to say he was Sullivan or somebody . ’ |
| 6 | I used to say I 'd love to get married and have children . |
| 7 | I was always the buffer between the two , I used to say I agree with you dear , I do n't want her to wear nylons , that 's not the point , all her friends are wearing nylons and she 's not going to be the |
| 8 | Oh I used to do I used to do Bradford Wakefield you know ? |
| 9 | I used to think I was quite good at that kind of thing |
| 10 | ‘ I used to think I 'd die of cholera on the spot . ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes I used to think I was in an old folk 's home . |
| 12 | But now he has other plans : ‘ I used to think I was a female in a male body . |
| 13 | And we used to go visiting , my Auntie Irene lived there and And we used to go on a Saturday night , I used to ooh and I 've told her , I used to tell I would n't live that , live up that lane rent free . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to imagine I found the woman in the movie . |
| 15 | I used to start me milkround on a Saturday morning at six o'clock and I 'd be still running round at , at one o'clock and some of these , two o'clock sometimes , if it was bad weather . |
| 16 | She ought to know I would n't do that . |
| 17 | I think you ought to go I 'll get you going real quick . |
| 18 | You ought to respect me grief . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You ought to help me more , ’ he once complained pathetically . |
| 20 | So you ought to show me the door today ! ’ |
| 21 | Oh right said Daryl and Elsie you ought to know I suppose any way , I 'd suspect you 'd like a sister , it 's nice having one . |
| 22 | Tell him that I 'm with you , but that you 're not quite sure how much you ought to tell me . |
| 23 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 24 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 25 | ‘ She used to give me a piece of the dough when she was making pastry . |
| 26 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 27 | Back at home , back at school and everything now , I do n't know , she never ever told me the story , she used to talked to Steffy she used to shut me off , and I thought I 'd |
| 28 | She used to say I 'll have a piece of topside and I used to get it down and cut her a piece of topside and sausages as well and pork chops . |
| 29 | She used to call me ‘ my old mate ’ when she was a girl , you know . |
| 30 | Dick she used to call me . |