Example sentences of "[no cls] we [modal v] to " in BNC.

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1 But I think in fairness to erm complete the picture shall we say , I really think we ought to er we ought to be looking at it .
2 You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light .
3 And er we used to all do that and then in the week in the weekday
4 And er we used to run Well most of our bearings , actually er white metal bearings and machine them afterwards .
5 And of course er we used to if we were busy , we used to tell they girls , I say , Look , I said , you can talk any anytime you like .
6 Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn .
7 We got another job , we we often get erm er we used to g often get jobs from the Yorkshire Museum .
8 Well there was all sorts , whatever was on the go , there was raspberry jam that my mo we used to later years my father grew raspberries and that sort of thing , blackcurrant jam , my mother made all sorts of things like that .
9 and th we used to be visited by some of their people
10 So I I would erm you know , quite often get bags of clothes , and s we sorted them out , and give them to people with erm quite large families and erm we used to also get some for the tenants ' association for the jumble sales .
11 But we certainly did some good work in the education because I think that we erm we used to , you know , of course we 'd , we 'd got used to use our auxiliaries naturally and erm we used to have a big conc a big er concert once a year in the town hall and er we would involve all the auxiliaries you know erm and of course we used to always erm fell a bit flat , the International Day which is July , the first Ju Saturday in July is International Day , Co-operative International , and we have always , the Guilds have worked very closely with the International Day .
12 Yeah catching rabbits a hedge and cut down a stick you know at the corn on the old and if we were lucky we used to get erm we used to er seat the old fella on the boiler and have a ride round on one of the horses .
13 erm we used to , all the little kiddies used to come to ours .
14 Oh we used to er we used we used to at sc we used to be at school until we were eleven years old .
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