Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I expect I ought to take notes , because the other Druids will like to know all this .
2 Yes , yes , yeah , but they did have civilians working there but I do n't know where they used to ferry the bombs out to but I do believe they used to carry detonators and everything down there you know .
3 Ours was called Woolly Jump and she what she used to do she used to carry things into her den into er into er part of er a sort of little lobby that was all hers
4 I remember at the Uni when we used to give we used to put stamps on people , you know ,
5 Speaking of dunking , I feel I ought to apprise readers of this pert little nipple of an hebdominal magazine of my current orientation concerning the beast with two backs — or three on a good night .
6 ‘ You know , people keep saying we ought to hang coats on Shylock 's arm … ’
7 I mean they used to take things er the wedding ring , the jewellery if they 'd got any , towels , sheets , er suits , shoes , er did n't did n't want to sell them , did n't want to get rid of them , they just wanted to borrow money on those , and he used to charge you interest and ticket money when you took it in , and then you 'd got to pay interest when you took it out as well so it was , they were on a good thing .
8 " I do n't reckon I ought to have shocks like that in my state of health . "
9 And I 'd er went to er we went to You can get you used to get apples .
10 I think you ought to put flowers all over him .
11 The other thing that tends to happen in post-olympic years is people look at rule books and different types of competition and there is a sort of atmosphere of I think we ought to change things .
12 They used to have they used to have cars , taxis and what have you .
13 Did they used to have clubs and stuff , the
14 My brother was like that once , he , he used to hate he used to hate he used to hate peas thank you , and once he got invited to a friend of his and there was peas , and he put just of four peas on his plate and said
15 She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else .
16 You see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and we could we could talk .
17 Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane .
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