Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [modal v] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thon wee Marie Tress that used to work the upper circle got stuck ahint the safe in the office way him an he vernear tane the blouse affer . |
| 2 | er er er would n't be used , because er he was never heard he was never he was heard , he was never heard , erm similar to this Lord Haw-Haw , you know that used to do the broadcasting er from from Nazi Germany to er to Britain , particularly to England . |
| 3 | The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale . |
| 4 | I remember we used to have an old Labrador cross that used to sleep under the kitchen table , till it finally gave up and died . |
| 5 | Th th when the house was built it was painted and I think that used to last it 's lifetime . |
| 6 | It is at the heart of contemporary conceptions of what the media do and ought to do . |
| 7 | See when I see that used to come round Sandy Row , he was the and he used to sit and the way he used to talk . |
| 8 | Starch from potatoes and acidic slag from steel-making — waste that used to end up in rivers or land-fill sites — are being combined to form a fertilizer rich in nitrogen . |