Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to ask Malcolm if he c I I do n't know what day you 'll be in ? |
| 2 | Maybe , maybe I do n't know if he 's shy or anything , why he has n't phoned up Michael yet , perhaps I ought to ask Michael to phone him then , he does , yes . |
| 3 | Do you think I ought to fill Andy in quickly ? |
| 4 | I ought to see George Carman , ’ said Ken Dodd . |
| 5 | I ought to tell Richard this , and we wo n't leave each other . |
| 6 | Perhaps I ought to ring Dawn and make an appointment if I want to talk to you ? |
| 7 | After my drunken afternoon with Al I do n't feel the same need to offload as I did before , and I ca n't decide whether I ought to involve Yvonne or not . |
| 8 | She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘ |
| 9 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 10 | I did all I could to encourage Bernstein to chat with John , who seemed even then to be developing into one of Canada 's most versatile and brilliant conductors . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried everything I could to keep Kearney alive , ’ he added . |
| 12 | I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake |
| 13 | Back in the sixties , when the kids seemed to think of nothing but politics and sex , I used to pray God almighty that my Daniele would never turn out like that . |
| 14 | go into the Brownies and I used to go Windsor every year actually with my two . |
| 15 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 16 | I used to spend Saturday mornings up there reading Havelock Ellis and Marie Stopes until the old man tumbled to it . |
| 17 | I used to love Roddy Frame 's playing in Aztec Camera . |
| 18 | I used to pretend Abba concerts in my bedroom with my friends . |
| 19 | And I used to see Gerry . |
| 20 | LETTERS FROM MY FATHER ed by Amanda Allsop Alan Sutton , £4.99 I USED to encounter Kenneth Allsop frequently in the Sixties when we broadcast together on BBC book programmes . |
| 21 | I used to tease Shaun a bit and I used to ask for it in a way . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ When I was younger , I used to wish Bartholomew was my brother because , God forgive me , I did not like Ralph . ’ |
| 23 | Karen I used to take Karen she was married to that English fellow . |
| 24 | Cos when I , I used to take Tim , it used to be very safe then , the only danger we seemed to be in in those days was catching cold . |
| 25 | ‘ When I used to watch Bros on the telly and they said they loved their fans , I used to think it was a really naff thing to say . |
| 26 | Oh I used to do I used to do Bradford Wakefield you know ? |
| 27 | And I used to do T-Zers ( the forerunner of Public NME ) all the time . ’ |
| 28 | It is compact because I mean I used to do Stamford as well |
| 29 | I used to get Doctor Zeuss |
| 30 | So I used to get George 's game in shape in a hurry by providing a target out in the field . |