Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the risk of sounding pompous — for this was very basic medicine — I thought I ought to explain to Miss Sowerby just what I was thinking of . |
| 2 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 3 | Now for example if I 'm looking at O level history , what sort of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ . |
| 4 | So I think I ought to forget about dissidency . |
| 5 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 6 | I used to smoke at school , but I do n't smoke now , I 've not smoked since I left school ! |
| 7 | I had three a year and of course in between times you go we had quarter fare if we want to go anywhere , you see and er of course it was the old money in those days and I would come from Ipswich to see my parents here for sixpence halfpenny then and er , you see , I used to go on holiday alone . |
| 8 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 9 | It was Prohibition times so I used to go to speakeasies . |
| 10 | Oh yes I used to g I used to go to church regularly every Sunday . |
| 11 | Cos I , I tell you , I used to go to Hunsdon fetch this milk of a morning and coming back , I 'd empty the one can and I had a cal a , a gallon in each can an and er , the first erm , the first call coming back was at that big house on the corner of . |
| 12 | I used to go to work fearful of the dialogue I was putting on the screen . |
| 13 | I used to go to Sunday school but I do n't go any more . |
| 14 | I used to go to Sunday school all the time before and they said I could go free . |
| 15 | It did n't give me a very positive image to actually find other people , but I used to go to South London drag pubs , such as the Vauxhall , with schoolfriends when we were in sixth form . |
| 16 | Andy who I used to go to school with . |
| 17 | I used to , I used to go to school gate , me mum used to hang it through |
| 18 | Aye , we 've done all sorts of things , there was er I used to go to chapel as well I I we were we were compelled to go to chapel . |
| 19 | Er and I used to go to night school to learn , er National Council of Labour Colleges , to learn economics . |
| 20 | I , I mean I used to go to London to buy things erm and you have oh they are even in England . |
| 21 | Cos I used to go to Trent Bridge in er then , you know in the early fifties . |
| 22 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 23 | When I was in Holloway I used to go to education but that was just to get out of my cell . |
| 24 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 25 | no , so we did n't have an invite I know , I mean normally I 'm taken every year you know , there , to see the old time musical which is great and I look forward to that but cos I did n't get , get there and I love going to Leah Manning as I say we have dancing there on a Wednesday afternoon it 's great , I enjoy it ever so much and I meet all my friends there that I have n't seen for years , you know , that I used to go to clubs with and they 've all arrived there now you know it 's great to see them , I thoroughly enjoy it . |
| 26 | I mean this is So n I remember , I used to go to NATO alli er er er di discussions as defence ministers . |
| 27 | I used to go to Wetheringsett Primary School but currently attend Debenham High School . |
| 28 | I used to go to Leeds one weekend and he would come to Manchester the next , ’ she says . |
| 29 | Long after I came to the army as I were telling you I used to go to pictures , I were in the S in the Savoy down Mostyn Street one one night I went and there in the programme there was this old er travel picture er some town or other th . |
| 30 | Yeah I used to go to playgroup when er she used to take Adam and our , I used to take our Lee up . |