Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] to have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mm , perhaps I ought to have a go at Nicks |
| 2 | When her younger brother tried to challenge her inheritance from her mother , ‘ I told him that though he was now the heir , as being son , yet I was two years the elder by my birth , and though he had got the birthright , yet I ought to have a share of her blessing . ’ |
| 3 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 4 | Even my doctor said I ought to have an abortion , because of my age . |
| 5 | I used to have a sewing machine , but I had to sell it when we got into difficulty with an electric bill . |
| 6 | I used to have a dish here flung out now , that he repaired , and repaired it with staples . |
| 7 | I used to have a friend at Hull University but we 're doing this a year too late . |
| 8 | I used to have a friend , the only other boy of my age in the congregation , before he went to Nottingham . |
| 9 | You know when I used to have a tutor Fred |
| 10 | ‘ I used to have a tutee who lived there , ’ she responded brightly when the professor 's wife told her in which part of London they had their house . |
| 11 | ‘ I used to have a tutee who lived there , ’ she told Guido . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to have a head quite full of interesting things . |
| 13 | No , I 've er , I used to have a bungalow in Wales . |
| 14 | I used to have a Spectrum ( sorry ) up until a year ago , and there were two really amazing games called Orc Attack and Car Wars which I loved and lost . |
| 15 | ‘ I used to have a memory , like , but my mind has blown , ’ Jo-Ann said . |
| 16 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 17 | I used to have a teacher called Mrs . |
| 18 | I used to have a piece of cardboard up there shelve dividers sounded like a good idea . |
| 19 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 20 | Erm , and now let's see I used to have a file on this , but I might have passed it or given all the stuff away |
| 21 | I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that . |
| 22 | ‘ I used to have a lot of fights and got a reputation . |
| 23 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 24 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 25 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 26 | One of my favourite B-52s songs is ‘ The Deathbeat Club ’ and I used to have a deadbeat club . ’ |
| 27 | I used to have a straw teddy , a stuffed straw te I 've still got it somewhere in the attic . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 29 | I , I , er I used to have an inspector when I was on traffic and he says you take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves . |
| 30 | The child is delicate , she ought to have a change of air . ’ |