Example sentences of "[subord] we [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we used to b boil the water . |
| 2 | that 's right where we used to perhaps |
| 3 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 4 | Indeed , if we want a puritan poet at that time , we would do far better to turn to that good , upright Anglican priest George Herbert , than we would to John Milton . |
| 5 | Even more concerned than we ought to be |
| 6 | It 's also tied to the fact that were , we have less money than we used to because of the introduction of Poll Tax , it is tied to that cos we are constrained but , erm that 's the kind of thing that we get brought into to support , erm and then another area is progressing policy initiative 's in other Council departments . |
| 7 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 8 | Firstly , we are , we 're trying to ensure that wherever possible , children do n't come into care , and we 're spending a lot more money than we used to in keeping out of care ; helping families etc . |
| 9 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 10 | The clay would n't lea you could n't clear the buckets , so we used to what we had a grafting tool , that was like a spade but that was , er , that was er , narrow at one end , the spade at the bottom end was a bit narrow so you could cut th cut the clay out of , out the buckets and that was a hard job too . |
| 11 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 12 | I remember the once we used to e he used to catch er blackbirds . |
| 13 | If we ought to had him mate they 'd have thought he 'd come from |
| 14 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |
| 15 | The lady did n't come alone , and I 'm not sure whether we ought to be doing anything about it . |
| 16 | So funct the functional form test will see erm will tell us whether we ought to possibly log the data or whether we ought to unlog the data and just do a regression in er er in absolute levels as opposed to logs . |
| 17 | If you are asking whether we ought to be spending more , I can only agree , ’ he said . |
| 18 | No , I I mind you , I do n't know whether we ought to perhaps . |
| 19 | ‘ We met at a swimming gala 'cos we used to be competitive swimmers , ’ recalls Sam . |
| 20 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 21 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |
| 22 | I know , when we used to down to London to the London Scout Gang Show . |
| 23 | especially when we used to be at factory , because we used to come down Phillip 's yard , did n't |
| 24 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 25 | We keep as much power as we can in Britain and we devolve as much of that as we can to our regions . |
| 26 | Yes , and we at the university are , I think , really I say ‘ I think ’ , my own purpose here at the university is to export what we 've got as quickly as we can to the local community , and indeed nationally too . |
| 27 | On arrival at Edinburgh Airport , two Landrovers awaited us and our luggage , and we drove as fast as we could to Gleneagles , to try to be in time for the Moët et Chandon reception which is the first party of the Rolex-Jackie Stewart Challenge weekend ; this was timed for 8pm ! |
| 28 | We only brought you and the boy as swiftly as we could to Andernesse . ’ |
| 29 | I do think answer for that one er erm I 'm not aware of any paper that 's published presenting that and we came as close as we could to answering that but nobody really knows for sure . |
| 30 | ‘ We got as close as we could to the shrimping rig , then Neil Henshaw and myself climbed aboard . |