Example sentences of "[adv] they [modal v] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 2 | Collectively they used to be a formidable bunch . |
| 3 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |
| 4 | Mm , well I should of said , I mean like they used to . |
| 5 | like they used to be , I do n't know what to do . |
| 6 | Here the parachutes are of a different design , less easily guided and the team land on or as near they can to a four hundred metre line from two thousand feet . |
| 7 | There used to be some nice serials for They used to be thrilling you know , er I can remember I wish they 'd show them now They used to be what we used to call , The voice on the wire and then there was another serial called , Peggo the Ring . |
| 8 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 9 | Well they used to , if a battery could n't be , you can charge it up but if it breaks through from one cell to the other a a across with sediment in the bottom , so it gaps that cell and that cell so you can charge it forever because the one 's discharging the other with the sediment that 's arrested in the bottom cos i it 's like putting a connection across , so it never actually charges . |
| 10 | Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball . |
| 11 | Well they used to se they used to take it to a , a man called in . |
| 12 | Well they used to be like er , used t as you used to braid your hair , they 'd braid a bit o rope and they 'd , they 'd make a sole out of that . |
| 13 | Well they used to but it 's self service is n't it and that 's a another thing . |
| 14 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 15 | Well they used to cut a bit of that H-bone on with the topside , that weighed with it . |
| 16 | Well they used to live erm |
| 17 | Yeah , quite often they do do n't , well they used to I do n't know if they do . |
| 18 | Well they used to all over , did n't they ? |
| 19 | The duty of the police when they arrest without warrant is , no doubt , to be quick to see the possibility of crime , but equally they ought to be anxious to avoid mistaking the innocent for the guilty … |
| 20 | And yet , years ago they used to be long , long trains . |
| 21 | Oh well just talking and when anybody came here they used to just talk about about old stories and things like that . |
| 22 | If anyone claims to be making a factual statement , then they ought to be able to state what observations would be relevant to determining the truth or falsity of that statement . |
| 23 | I do n't quite know why , but anyhow if they do feel old at 75 , then they ought to be shaken up a bit . |
| 24 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 25 | And then then after that , the overlooker what was there used to say , Well you you pull frame out so many pegs you see , and it used to pull out , stretch this here lace , and pull out and then they used to dowels at the bottom used to plug in to stop the frames from going back . |
| 26 | And then people used to er maybe wedding rings or sovereign used to pawn that and then they used to either they could n't afford to get it out , to , to redeem it so er the pawnbroker would sell it then , after a time . |
| 27 | like down at the erm , when I was crane driving , we used to have ships coming from Casablanca , with phosphate in and then there be a , another part there was sulphur , then they used to be erm , there 's green oar , what we used to call |
| 28 | Then , course then they used to hav when the man stood in green , I knew a fella named which we was talking about a little while ago and he had a pair of lady 's stockings which he used to put over his shoes to stop the grain going in and some of these people in the and , they used to have erm , like er string soles with like calico boots and they used to tie them on tight . |
| 29 | from there and now course they got shipped out and then they used to be a ship as well , used to take it to sea called the |
| 30 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |