Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , if Fiver was right and the whole warren was in imminent peril , then of course they ought to welcome any rabbit who was ready to join them . |
| 2 | And then of course they used to iron them . |
| 3 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 4 | Well of course they used to use the poppy , for people in great pain |
| 5 | And of course then when she had done it they used to fold it up they used to just get it then and go like that you know , and just fold it up and then when it was done all done you see , they 'd take it back to this here lady and then of course they used to pay you for it . |
| 6 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 7 | That all , that 's all for the grain and then of course we used to import a lot at locust . |
| 8 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 9 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 10 | And of course we used to have to go on tram cars to the school and Road . |
| 11 | And the grey ghost and all them we saw in serials and of course we used to follow them up go every Saturday afternoon and follow these serials up . |
| 12 | But of course she ought to have known that martin Jones would find out in the end . |
| 13 | But listen to big Ray Close and he would have you believe that it was no big deal , just another fight and a chance to earn the kind of money he used to dream of as an amateur with Ledley Hall . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel closer to Chris , doing the sort of work he used to do , ’ she said to Sarah . |
| 15 | When he was at Cardiff College of PE he used to get Gareth Edwards to play . |
| 16 | When he was at Cardiff College of PE he used to get Gareth Edwards to play . |
| 17 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 18 | Moore 's sitting room has been reconstructed on the ground floor complete with his favourite armchair , bookcase , work table and all the works of art it used to contain , shipped over from storage in Britain plus a colour photograph reproducing the view he enjoyed out of his window . |
| 19 | ‘ Lucasta was just the sort of woman he used to like . |
| 20 | ‘ A sort of game we used to play . |
| 21 | I found the homework , homework diary was useful because I used to check in , end of every of week they used to know if it was n't there I 'd want to know why it was n't done ! |
| 22 | Without warning , he had fallen into just the sort of trouble he ought to have kept out of . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd have to say that given the change of government they ought to have a very good chance of preventing us assisting Huerter . |
| 24 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 25 | It was years since she 'd played , of course , and her fingers were bound to be rusty , but she could n't resist trying out some of the pieces of music she used to play so long ago . |
| 26 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 27 | In fact they pay for the sort of thing they used to skive out of when they were at school . ’ |
| 28 | The kind of thing you ought to do with with mum is like , you could probably go down one Sunday and have a , have a , you know , have a lunch . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose it 's the sort of thing you ought to have an inkling of . |
| 30 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |