Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] they [vb mod] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures .
2 Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat
3 And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house !
4 ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch .
5 The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts .
6 ‘ Let us worry about that , ’ said the Captain , who knew exactly what would happen if nobody paid and that they would in all likelihood never find the body .
7 This suggests that the maxims do indeed derive from general considerations of rationality applicable to all kinds of cooperative exchanges , and if so they ought in addition to have universal application , at least to the extent that other , culture-specific , constraints on interaction allow .
8 They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm
9 That was like er er what you call a linseed oil , they call is text that 's some animal 's erm oil I think out of the house and cos they used to , used to rub that in and you could them down lovely .
10 See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days .
11 And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all .
12 While many managers are increasingly concerned at recording unmet need , both how to do it and whether they should at all , he was confident Dorset has come up with a method which makes it a positive experience for staff and service users and , hopefully , avoids potential legal pitfalls .
13 What that in some areas somebody would n't get an application whereas that they would in other areas ?
14 corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed .
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