Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | going slow , so I do n't think I ought to of done . |
| 2 | Yet I do n't think I used to be very naughty . |
| 3 | You do n't want I used to be like that |
| 4 | ‘ I mean I used to . |
| 5 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 6 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 7 | Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well |
| 8 | Oh I do n't know I used to boyfriend . |
| 9 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 10 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 11 | All sorts of different people he said I would never ever buy any beans he said cos of this chappie who used to work they used to unless you change over the tin or something he used to spit in the tins . |
| 12 | Of course , there are plenty of bands around who still shun the use of a digital recording system in favour of its analogue forbears , but fings ai n't want they used to be and DAT 's the truth . |
| 13 | Did n't you know he used to be feather weight champion of Scotland |
| 14 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 15 | Th they used he used to er hunting with the with the with the with the with the with the with the people that used to go hunting . |
| 16 | The Archdeacon would know what ought to be done . |
| 17 | That would shatter Germany 's present mood of economic optimism , already faltering as the difficulties of modernising what used to be East Germany grow clearer . |
| 18 | I mean if somebody says I used to People finding grating people might say , Oh I find it grating but it does n't really mean anything does it ? |
| 19 | The defendant will have to explain his default and satisfy the court that he has a defence or counterclaim which ought to be heard . |
| 20 | Sharon 's mother says she used to be against the death sentence , but not now . |
| 21 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 22 | … And it seemed there ought to be music , so Esther Allan , the music teacher at the school where I was the most reluctant member of the Art Department , got roped in . |
| 23 | Whatever arrangements are made they ought to be convenient for the parents and not just for the school . |
| 24 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 25 | She says it used to be beautiful , but the rectory and the church are a disgrace . |
| 26 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 27 | But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ? |
| 28 | When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them . |
| 29 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 30 | ‘ You 'd think she ought to be allowed to get on with it . ’ |