Example sentences of "and [n mass] [modal v] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 2 | that that it it is in fact something that ought to be shared more and people ought to benefit more from what 's here ? |
| 3 | and people used to go and see it and go and enjoy them and if you want to erm , if you went into Wales and on that way there was , who was it , it 's Albert you know |
| 4 | I used to find in Newcastle College , I mean I was wa walk back and people used to stop and |
| 5 | The buses used to start from their to Hampton , and there used to be a place where they would leave newspapers and they put , put a er box there by that and people used to take out newspaper and put the money into the box and er , you ca n't dream of that sort of thing now . |
| 6 | She was supposed to have the power of healing stomach aches , and people used to visit her during the hours of the siesta so that no one would know . |
| 7 | I can remember one standard lamp we had , it was really weird and people used to say that 'll be alright if you were landing a plane cos it had spotlights , I mean now , they , erm , in fact you can still buy the same sort of thing , but then it was so way out |
| 8 | And people used to say , Oh you 're not sisters . |
| 9 | Some people , Oh these visitors and people used to say to me , Well now look , I said like that , visitors , I said like that , there 's enough stuff for everybody . |
| 10 | As I got older and people used to bring me injured birds to look after , I was always very careful of them and did n't approach without the leather glove I wear when working with birds of prey . |
| 11 | In the early days passenger travel was uncommon and people used to buy their tickets at inns like the Fighting Cocks , Middleton St. George , or the Oak Tree , near Stockton . |
| 12 | there was enough there and people used to tell me used to ask for things . |
| 13 | There was a fighter at the time called Joe ‘ Kid ’ Bassey and people used to think we were related . |