Example sentences of "[adv] we [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 2 | Do you think perhaps we ought to erm ask the school if they 've got the letters ready yet , rather than |
| 3 | Perhaps we ought to lo well , what is weaning ? |
| 4 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |
| 5 | and er actually that is something perhaps we ought to be talking about . |
| 6 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 7 | So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole . |
| 8 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 9 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 10 | And sometimes used to get a bit of a a bad storm ahead so we used to especially if you went from here to er North of Scotland round Cape . |
| 11 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
| 12 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 13 | And when we went to bed early we used to we One used to have to fill the kettle , and then the other one used to have to set the table for next morning for next morning . |
| 14 | Perhaps they do n't have time to stand and talk like we used to . |
| 15 | Do we now , for example , make er big ships like we used to ? |
| 16 | also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ? |
| 17 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 18 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 19 | But now , I think , there are signs that er things are beginning to pick up , certainly we 're being told things are beginning to pick up and I think probably as an office generally , we 're experiencing that upturn , although er every time we get some special job in , suddenly we think we are at the end of a recession and perhaps , you know , it 's the next job that really we ought to be looking to . |
| 20 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 21 | Well we used to er well really we never used to do anything kind of perhaps er go out and play or anything like that . |
| 22 | Well we used to er you see , you know when you paid you had your cheque . |
| 23 | Well we used to er get Jersey potatoes and things like that and then new potatoes . |
| 24 | We used to perhaps , well we used to , then when that started Mr got a slaughterhouse , you see , down , we used to kill his stuff as well up , up in our slaughterhouse and Ernie used to do it , well he used to do the slaughtering and make the sausages |
| 25 | Well we used to put er branches below them |
| 26 | Well we used to , I mean , I do n't think did they ? |
| 27 | We never used to go Here we used to be and on the beach there . |
| 28 | Erm when any little any little points like that then we ought to er flag up yeah ? |
| 29 | So three o'clock Friday then we ought to be the lights before I suppose . |
| 30 | Now if that is true then we ought to be able to re- forecast a year getting a reasonable assessment , okay , on what 's that going to do . |