Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Men like Luke Hunter ought to carry a government health warning , ’ she agreed . |
| 2 | So I think we ought to see a little bit more of these doctors and a little more of these pharmacists also backing the National Health Service up er which they should . |
| 3 | The Havvie Blaines of this world ought to wear a sign warning decent women off — and he 's as handsome as the devil , which does n't help . ’ |
| 4 | Nothing would , nothing could go wrong today ; he ought to find a betting shop and put some money on a horse , he felt so lucky , so good , so in tune . |
| 5 | Somebody ought to do a research project into it ; the answers are all there to be unearthed , if you 've got the time and the energy . ’ |
| 6 | He always used to wear a bowler hat and very dark clothes . |
| 7 | He used to wear a Halloween mask to hide his birthmark when he played with his wee friends . |
| 8 | He went to er College , and he used to wear a mortar board , cos that 's the tassel hanging down , and this here thing . |
| 9 | One boxing scribbler of the tabloid persuasion used to recite a Guardian intro which Keating dashed off in a Bavarian hotel room , while struggling to complete a long overdue script for children 's television : ‘ Tonight in Munich , Muhammad Ali of The Universe will defend his world heavyweight title against Richard Dunn of 23 Railway Cuttings , Bradford , West Yorkshire . ’ |
| 10 | She did n't wear Salvation Army uniform in school , but she used to visit a Goodwill centre in Bethnal Green and nothing of note escapes the eager eyed cockney . |
| 11 | Local man Paul McAllister heard the screams and raced to the scene with a ladder which he used to reach a bedroom window . |
| 12 | This cash was invested in France , some used to buy a holiday chateau at Narbonne , another £200,000 to buy 12 holiday chalets , and £100,000 to buy land options . |
| 13 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 14 | And you told me that she used to use a crochet hook . |
| 15 | I used to use a stop watch and then I thought of a better way . |
| 16 | He used to run a flower shop called Europlants Limited , at Hinders Yard , off Ermine Street . |
| 17 | Her younger sister Lucy , 21 , used to run a play scheme there . |
| 18 | I thought they used to run a carol service . |
| 19 | Till about 5 years ago I used to run a tea stall . |
| 20 | She used to smoke a clay pipe and shag tobacco . |
| 21 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 22 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
| 23 | Used to get a swimming pool in winter did n't we ? |
| 24 | That 's a bit like erm did n't you used to have a word box with words in ? |
| 25 | They used to have a joinery class there . |
| 26 | We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch . |
| 27 | I used to have a sewing machine , but I had to sell it when we got into difficulty with an electric bill . |
| 28 | Well I was in the tennis club when I was a er they used to have a tennis court at the back . |
| 29 | Remember we used to have a prisoner group did n't we , when I first came so that the |
| 30 | Simon used to have a Tokay gekko named Wizard . |