Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm an actress , or I used to be . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a model , or I used to be until I married . |
| 3 | ‘ I work out with weights — or I used to . |
| 4 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 5 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 6 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 7 | So can you see why we 're looking at perhaps a , a , or we ought to be considering a figure a big higher than three hundred thousand . |
| 8 | Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir . |
| 9 | Or it used to be so . |
| 10 | Or it used to be the George . |
| 11 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 12 | I 've told you all I know and I ought to be getting back — I 've lost two hours of work as it is . ’ |
| 13 | What I have n't done and I ought to because of the erm the way that this discussion has to unfold , I ought to say that pure few sentences about why should there be a strategic sites policy at all and erm I ought to put that on the record although it 's pretty well trailed in all the paper work . |
| 14 | ‘ I get involved in many different projects and I can to a certain degree prioritise what I want to do . |
| 15 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 16 | And I used to . |
| 17 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 18 | And I used to like the gates , where because sit on it , get on the gate and get on the horse 's back . |
| 19 | And er the other daughter , when we lived up , she had to go there for six er , and I used to ge had to get up , and bring her right down the lane , and then I 'd got to walk back , up that lane meself , you see ? |
| 20 | And I used to er very often go up to her house and she 'd come down to my house and er . |
| 21 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 22 | It was difficult cos you only had what they we call the joystick behind me and I used to work that and I used to be |
| 23 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 24 | Do n't know very much now but er it er became most monotonous and I used to and I used to like |
| 25 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 26 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 27 | And I have n't had these dreams in a long time , and I used to never do anything like that . |
| 28 | and she 'd draw up and come in the church , in the shop yard there and I used to , when I got home she 'd be hot , you see . |
| 29 | And I used to and ready to put in the oven . |
| 30 | And I used to dress er rabbits |