Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans ought to thank me . |
| 2 | I think you ought to go I 'll get you going real quick . |
| 3 | She ought to know I would n't do that . |
| 4 | Oh right said Daryl and Elsie you ought to know I suppose any way , I 'd suspect you 'd like a sister , it 's nice having one . |
| 5 | ‘ You ought to help me more , ’ he once complained pathetically . |
| 6 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 7 | I wanted to cut my hair short , and they allowed it for a while , until they discovered from a ‘ friend ’ that I am a lesbian , and then they tried everything they could to stop me dressing as I used to . |
| 8 | You ought to respect me grief . ’ |
| 9 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 10 | ‘ My mother used to treat me like a stranger , ’ he reflected . |
| 11 | He used to like me I think , but to tell the truth , I did n't like him much . |
| 12 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 13 | ‘ You used to like me kissing you . ’ |
| 14 | But er I used to go I did n't eat with the men you were n't allowed to eat with the men you see , it was only the full men that sat round this table well |
| 15 | Chris was a learner driver at this time , and he used to drive me to hospital ; driving practice for him , but a great relief for me not to have to drive myself . |
| 16 | Sometimes he used to hit me , tell me I was worthless . |
| 17 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 18 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 19 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 20 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 21 | Every time we used to fight from then on , I used to pretend I was Johnson and the other kid used to say he was Sullivan or somebody . ’ |
| 22 | The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me . |
| 23 | What used to irritate me does n't so much any more , and even quite boring things , like doing the shopping , are almost fun . |
| 24 | It used to irritate me but now it just makes me laugh . |
| 25 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 26 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 27 | Erm and you know and I the thing that erm used to worry me maybe sometimes , was the acceptance of this as what they should be having . |
| 28 | Brown , who went on a one-day course at T IS before coming back and installing the system at Morgan Grenfell , is now teaching colleagues to use it , including unit manager Karen Goate , ‘ Computers used to frighten me , but not now , ’ she says . |
| 29 | It used to frighten me . |
| 30 | And those growths that used to frighten me , the moulds and fungi . |