Example sentences of "she [modal v] [to-vb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ought to know I would n't do that . |
| 2 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 3 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 4 | ‘ She used to give me a piece of the dough when she was making pastry . |
| 5 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 6 | Back at home , back at school and everything now , I do n't know , she never ever told me the story , she used to talked to Steffy she used to shut me off , and I thought I 'd |
| 7 | She used to say I 'll have a piece of topside and I used to get it down and cut her a piece of topside and sausages as well and pork chops . |
| 8 | She used to call me ‘ my old mate ’ when she was a girl , you know . |
| 9 | Dick she used to call me . |
| 10 | Anyway , ] used to call on her , quite unexpectedly , once in every month or two perhaps , and she used to entertain me most hospitably . |
| 11 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 12 | And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early . |
| 13 | With that luminous cheek of hers , that flame she used to enslave me . |
| 14 | I used to , there 's one of the women I work with used is a shout and she used to upset me and |
| 15 | She 's fat and she used to cuddle me and Annie . |
| 16 | She used to squash me . |
| 17 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
| 18 | She used to look me up and down as if the Brownie uniform was really nothing to get excited about , and say smugly , ‘ Rainbows wear green Nuforms ! ’ |
| 19 | When I was a teenager she used to follow me everywhere . |
| 20 | She could n't read or nothing cos she was too little , but she used to tell me stories — you know , made up ones like . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 22 | She 'd come every two weeks to see me , she used to tell me everything that was going on with Natasha , and we built a very strong relationship up . |
| 23 | But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures . |
| 24 | She used to tell me about them . |
| 25 | And she used to tell me about her burying it with her father you see , the sacks of malt so that he did n't find it . |
| 26 | he said , and she used to come down he said she used to think I 've got another woman ! |
| 27 | Later on , when I was living in Cardiff , I would often miss the last bus from my girlfriend 's house and she used to lend me her bicycle . |
| 28 | She used to have me in a big feather bed with her … |
| 29 | I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite . |
| 30 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |