Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [modal v] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry . |
| 2 | Was there ever a custom mentioned to you whereby they used to put a cairn down ? |
| 3 | In making these statements the church is not standing aloof from the unconverted instructing them on how they ought to live their lives rather the church is speaking to itself , holding before all its members the id the ideal of what we believe God has taught in his word about the way in which people ought to live . |
| 4 | Police are understandably resistant to advice on how they ought to do their job from those without experience of it . |
| 5 | Descriptivism is the name given to the view that the way people actually use language should be accurately described , without prescription of how they ought to use it . |
| 6 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 7 | It 's in a way like a bereavement in as far its the middle of the afternoon and everything is going well , then suddenly everything 's changed and they 're pretty devastated and do n't know how they ought to react . |
| 8 | But Normanton ( 1971 , p. 312 ) points out that ‘ public accountability is capable of much more : it is actually , or potentially , a rich and open source of knowledge about how government services function in actual practice , and hence of ideas about how they ought to function ’ . |
| 9 | There was a lot , lot had it er I do n't know how they used to go on really er I know some somebody in a , a movement called Rachobites er what were the other one ? |
| 10 | and the next night he 'll be kipping and the other one I 'll be working and that 's how they used to go on and it eventually , that 's why it was ten English worker 's to one Japanese because of that reason |
| 11 | That 's how they used to live there , at them times . |
| 12 | You know how they used to do a lot of weaving , they do n't do so much now . |
| 13 | Farm yes , that 's how they used to do it . |
| 14 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |
| 15 | And the following month they drop you , that 's how they used to do it |
| 16 | and er , I I saw Chris quite a lot , then , but I mean , they 're not living how they used to do , I mean , they they were always boozing and that , |
| 17 | That 's how they used to do it Ken |
| 18 | Talk about I reckon that , er Evelyn 's niece said er I said that 's how they used to dress boys , I said ho she said why I said probably |
| 19 | Er yes a lot of folk went out that way with their ponies er in fact that 's how they used to take the men when any Glen Shee person died in Glen Ayloch they took them out that way to the kirk here in Glen Shee kirk . |
| 20 | Erm tt this is supposedly how they used to teach their kids how to count . |
| 21 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 22 | how they used to talk . |
| 23 | She explained how they used to steal food , and how hard it was when she came to the Hogans , her first job , to realise she did n't have to take any stray biscuit or a fistful of sugar and put it into her apron . |
| 24 | . And that 's how they used to start the o and the old gas engine it used to pop pop pop , pop pop pop , pop pop pop pop . |
| 25 | I think it 's how they used to speak in the twentieth century . |
| 26 | Remember how they used to feel as though they were the size of grapefruit ? ’ |
| 27 | That was how they used to insult someone who had a and untidy load you know . |
| 28 | That 's how they used to count them up . |
| 29 | But that 's how they used to know . |
| 30 | Oh yes , it was marvellous , that 's how they used to make it , in those days . |