Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 2 | But of course I ought to . |
| 3 | Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake . |
| 4 | Richard , on the odd occasion you something for me Richard I ought to be a lot for you ! |
| 5 | oh yes , oh I know Dora she used to be in our dancing troop |
| 6 | ‘ I did say as ‘ ow she ought to ‘ ave ‘ ad Mother ‘ ampton , ’ she observed . |
| 7 | I think before we take any urgent action we ought to Alan ought to monitor the situation . |
| 8 | And then some at Jailside Parkses and in the , during the winter months we used to , we had a spot to meet about half a dozen of us from the various factories , because we were afraid to walk home through and that way er because men used to wait in Lane . |
| 9 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 10 | In Pakistan they used to be my constant companions . |
| 11 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 12 | Thus , for centuries it used to be thought that even if a woman expressed her lack of consent in every way within her power , if she conceived as a result of the intercourse , she must in fact have consented . |
| 13 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 14 | I think that whenever there 's a programme it ought to be agreed above and below er a hierarchy . |
| 15 | I said " the words he ought to be able to spell " . |
| 16 | If and when we choose violence he ought to be the focus of our efforts . |
| 17 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 18 | Forgetting the past is obviously not the positive action it ought to be if it results in waves of violence towards anyone perceived as not sufficiently ‘ German ’ . |
| 19 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 20 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 21 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 22 | Have you got the green you used to ? |
| 23 | They can help to identify which companies you ought to be looking at , they may have a database of relevant information , and if you are looking at information-gathering from a number of companies they can save you time and effort if they do the legwork . |
| 24 | It is n't really you who 's feeling this way , it 's the girl you used to be who 's been somehow resurrected — brought back to life by all the memories that surround you . |
| 25 | They do n't look like the boot and shoes we used to swe , wear . |
| 26 | This discussion suggests that the question we ought to be asking is not a descriptive one — what is public law ? — but a prescriptive or normative one : when ought public law rules apply ; or , what is the proper scope of public law ? |
| 27 | If the mens rea principle and the principle of proof are objectives worthy of a rational and humane system of criminal law they ought to be used critically to assess the achievement of the total system rather than circularly to select an acceptable portion of the criminal law . |
| 28 | But the hoppers they used to be , er two hoppers we had two of them hoppers , we had the er one called the |
| 29 | In this universe they ought to be huge . |
| 30 | But it is necessary to start on this battle at school , and it is the duty of teachers to give all the help they can to their pupils to win each engagement . |