Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I ought to take anything or ? |
| 2 | ‘ I just thought I ought to remind you that we 're all doomed . |
| 3 | I used to think that I ought to do everything and then at least I could n't blame myself for not having done enough . |
| 4 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 5 | Suppose I ought to tell him that should n't I ? be out and unlock the gate . |
| 6 | Ladies and gentlemen , we just before we get on with the second part of the meeting when erm , meeting erm I think I ought to tell you that erm one of our committee members died a very short while back . |
| 7 | ‘ Before we find the others Mrs. Channing , I ought to tell you that we did n't run into each other by accident . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't suppose it 's important , but I thought I ought to tell you that I saw Mr Riddle on Friday evening . ’ |
| 9 | He said , ‘ I think I ought to tell you that I do not grieve for my mother . ’ |
| 10 | " Miss Adeane , " he murmured , somewhere above her , " if this pose of the sacrificial victim is intended to impress me , I ought to warn you that it does not . " |
| 11 | I do n't know , I do n't know , although I ought to warn you that another way of interpreting the Greek would be , but now a man wishes to be another approached that man . |
| 12 | We had a good Christian upbringing , and I know I ought to condemn him if that 's the case , but I do n't . |
| 13 | See that fucking knife Mark , I ought to stab you or him with it , I am sick to death of yous . |
| 14 | ‘ I was doing everything I could to keep him because of the jobs in the area . ’ |
| 15 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
| 16 | Then I used to feed her and I did n't let her have any water when she was hot cos that give them colic , you see , sometimes . |
| 17 | ‘ I used to ask myself that one but I gave up trying to find an answer long ago . ’ |
| 18 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 19 | Mm , I used to let my when it 's tutor period , get on and do some revision work |
| 20 | I used to love him but I hated the way he done that to my hair . |
| 21 | I used to love it when he kicked me and enjoyed just sitting and feeling the bulge . |
| 22 | Oh I do yeah , I used to love it and I 'm sure these two er get , I mean very , very good umpire is Dickie Bird and John Hampshire . |
| 23 | I hardly ever see her now because she does n't go out and neither do I. But I used to see her when her husband was alive , indeed they were almost the only people I ever saw . |
| 24 | I used to see them when it was the custom for young folk to gather at Cotherstone village at weekends , to chat and meet their friends . |
| 25 | box are in the toilet with a paper bag in there 's a , where I used to put them and I 've had a fair look but not sort of |
| 26 | I used to enjoy it when Alistair was a wee boy but you grow out of it |
| 27 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 28 | And I used to take them as I wanted them and I cleared the lot . |
| 29 | I used to use them when I was fishing |
| 30 | ‘ Playground language ’ I used to call it when my sons explored that path . |