Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really ought to try to get up to the farm to fetch our Carrie down . ’ |
| 2 | At times , a faint remembrance of the scent her mother used to wear drifted up from the folds of the clothing . |
| 3 | Mendoros 's enthusiasm for aviation dates , he says , from his childhood in the Sudan , when he used to get taken up in the helicopters servicing Italian-operated drilling rigs . |
| 4 | used to get told to go out in the Autumn and we used to get told by the , used to get taken out by the teacher into some woods and you would have to collect the leaves . |
| 5 | We used to get mixed up with the fight . |
| 6 | Er I 'd be fourteen in the June and we used to have to keep on till the end of the term which was August . |
| 7 | Now being late , the headmaster always dealt with you fro being late , that was n't a teacher 's responsibility at all.You used to have to line up all those boys that were late , you used to have to line up outside the the headmaster 's room , one at a time , I I jus on each hand , you used to have a cane on each hand . |