Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [modal v] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the new single , ‘ Certain People I Know ’ / ‘ Jack The Ripper ’ , will prove no exception to the rule , coming in a special promo sleeve which , so the Parlophone press office reckons , ‘ Has artwork similar to that which we used to use on T-Rex singles . ’ |
| 2 | Jake also had a share in a larger , sea-going vessel , which we used to visit in the harbour , examining enviously the neat bunks and tiny galley . |
| 3 | The lowering of water-levels to allow ploughing of damp pasture has removed the nesting habitat of many birds which we used to take for granted , such as snipe , lapwing , and redshank . |
| 4 | We can apply the test to the technical and technological subjects , and not only those , but the professional subjects also ; and the boundary line will run now on this side , now on that ; but the things that it divides are different in kind , and only on one side of that line lies what we ought to allow to be education . |
| 5 | ‘ Have a look at the correspondence column , and tell me what we ought to do about it . ’ |
| 6 | So I , and , and to be honest I think that 's what we ought to do at this stage , |
| 7 | My parents ' solution was to take Ann into their bed , and Robert and I did what we could to look after them . |
| 8 | That 's what we used to do with these ships . |
| 9 | what we used to do at the gym ? |
| 10 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
| 11 | Its what we used to do in the 2nd div championship year , and even in the first division the first year up . |
| 12 | It 'll be interesting in the year two thousand and ninety to look back and see what we used to do in the nineteen nineties . |
| 13 | You know yous wan na get what we used to have in our house ? |
| 14 | Well I suppose it was then but course at that time of day well what we used to suffer with , you suffer with diphtheria and scarlet fever and yo you do n't hear that today do you ? |
| 15 | Believing sentences and slotting the information that they convey into our knowledge base ( for instance , what we used to think about the referent of she ) is another story . |