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Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1	First it is argued that where a state is relatively just one ought to support and maintain it .
2	‘ So it might , ’ he said , ‘ we ought to go and hunt it .
3	‘ But in that case somebody ought to go and see him , ’ said Ianthe , remembering her own recent illness and how forlorn she had felt .
4	I looked at the two of them , ‘ You ought to go and have yourselves examined . ’
5	‘ I still think you ought to go and have it out with him . ’
6	I really ought to go and help them seeing as we 're .
7	I think I ought to go and put them in the dryer a bit longer .
8	And anyway , I ought to go and find my parents .
9	‘ You ought to come and visit me one day .
10	‘ Perhaps I ought to try and eat something , ’ he said ; ‘ to give the stomach acid something to work on . ’
11	Do n't you think we ought to try and understand our surroundings before we try to change them ? ’
12	I felt I ought to try and phone him at home to tip him off — if I got the chance .
13	‘ Well , I shall be angry too if you do n't come , ’ Helen said sharply , then added more gently , ‘ I understand how you feel about him , but you ought to try and overcome your dislike .
14	‘ I just think you ought to try and forgive yourself , ’ mumbled Daisy .
15	Still the hired spider in the back clucked and unwedged himself as fast as he could to go and check his beloved bits and pieces by touch .
16	She would beat me , push me as I was going downstairs , and do anything she could to try and harm me and my baby .
17	I used to sit and watch him for hours , painstakingly working on a painting , and , following his example , I would push myself harder and harder to make my own drawings better .
18	I used to sit and help me mother to do it .
19	But the Strike was , well we had the pit ponies up , and er we always used to go and feed them , and then we went , of course , to chapel for meals .
20	the butcher , on the corner of Street , the little tiny grocers where you used to go and fe your mother used to go and fetch her groceries , and if she spent three shillings in the shop she was a good customer .
21	You know the man in charge of them was they called him , always used to go and fetch him to go if they needed er or somebody lost their passes and .
22	alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was
23	Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land .
24	But erm we used to have a little shed , a little hut in the pit yard , where we used to go and pay our dues , every week
25	used to go and pay it .
26	And er course summer holidays we always used to go and spend them with granny and granddad .
27	My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft .
28	That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time .
29	I was living up Redruth way and I used to go and see her as often as I could , because I sort of sensed she was n't all that happy .
30	Well then , cos he was doing executor for poor old soul poor old and er Ivy used to go and see her pretty frequently , she said do come and see me Mrs ?