Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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1 | " So he darned well ought to be , " replied Bigwig , " the great dandy " for by their standards , Strawberry was scrupulously clean and fastidious . |
2 | Round here used to be where working men lived . |
3 | there 's two files at the end which I thought maybe ought to be at the beginning . |
4 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
5 | He did really ought to be audited , and sorry there are other people as well , he is by far the most extreme person , but then there will be other people as well . . |
6 | Because of your health , pet , they 're putting us on the priority list , say we did n't ought to be below-ground , nor too high . |
7 | Oh she said I 'll be going up tomorrow but I , I , I ca n't ask her , I did n't ought to but I ca n't ca n't ask her nothing , in n it funny . |
8 | So , but I , I think he thought Ken meant that he was like superior and he did n't ought to be doing that sort of job . |
9 | You did n't used to . ’ |
10 | well I did n't used to , I used to have one A at the beginning but of course , it was impractical because the there were n't enough booklets to go round . |
11 | It did n't used to be . |
12 | I did n't used to be one to leave dreams be . |
13 | I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that . |
14 | And er I told them that er I was n't p p p prepared er because they was there during the day as well , it did n't used to across to catch the school bus , and be half a dozen or so come back next door , and stop there till about twenty past three then go back , come back over as if he 's got out the bus . |
15 | ‘ They did n't used to be like this . |
16 | I did n't used to like going to college once a week . |
17 | Did n't used to really , ooh it must of been murder for him when you think ! |
18 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |
19 | Did n't used to be there though did it ? |
20 | And er er it did n't used to be erm white barge-boarding , er nor white erm fencing . |
21 | Better access for Eastern Europe 's farm exports therefore ought to be manageable , even if losers went uncompensated . |