Example sentences of "they [modal v] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The MOD wants to keep them ; the liberal democrats want them used to cut housing waiting lists . |
| 2 | Some of them used to conceal tea in their shoes . |
| 3 | They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom . |
| 4 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |
| 5 | And then Lily Moore had suggested that it was n't fair , that they ought to take turns at the pulpit and the font . |
| 6 | to feel by duty as it were that they ought to take notice of their immediate family . |
| 7 | To feel , by duty as it were , that they ought to take notice of their immediate family , John and Maryann are capable of financially supporting themselves , so I do n't worry about the money aspect and in every other way physiologically , emotionally , immorally they , they are able to look after themselves Neil is n't . |
| 8 | The Parochial Church Council had actually discussed whether they ought to install railings and a gate , but that had seemed uncharitable and there were more important things to spend their money on . |
| 9 | And they ought to form value of what , so they know how much it 's worth , what the company that 's gon na earn them the money want the money for the valuation . |
| 10 | Briefly , they ought to make time to follow up their patients . |
| 11 | They ought to have escalators going down you know in Birmingham . |
| 12 | Taking advantage of the disordered and uncertain state of things it is not surprising that some mineral " owners " felt they ought to have reward for the working of minerals on their land , and there is little doubt that legal issues could and did arise where such " illegal " mining was detected . |
| 13 | Tribunals are an essential check on the powers of officialdom but at the moment they do not work as well as they should to ensure justice in welfare provision . |
| 14 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 15 | President Kaunda and Prime Minister Vorster , suddenly arriving there in person , did all they could to push Smith and the ANC together . |
| 16 | They felt it was the duty of America to stop the world toppling to Communism and did everything they could to stop Ho Chi Minh . |
| 17 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 18 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 19 | They did all they could to encourage peasant resistance , to enlighten the masses and to expose the myth of the Tsar as a caring ‘ little father ’ . |
| 20 | They used to replace pepper when its price was high , and were called Guinea pepper because they are from West Africa . |
| 21 | Mr Williams claimed they used to feed Mr Jones at school dinner time . |
| 22 | Paint , red paint that they used to paint railway wa er railway carriages . |
| 23 | The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants . |
| 24 | I mean they used to take things er the wedding ring , the jewellery if they 'd got any , towels , sheets , er suits , shoes , er did n't did n't want to sell them , did n't want to get rid of them , they just wanted to borrow money on those , and he used to charge you interest and ticket money when you took it in , and then you 'd got to pay interest when you took it out as well so it was , they were on a good thing . |
| 25 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 26 | ‘ On medieval Earth they used to label maps with ‘ Here Be Dragons ’ . |
| 27 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 28 | I , I think it was only a drop in the ocean really towards the national effort , but , but I remember erm at Darlaston , they used to build tanks over there and they , they used to pay us visits in sometimes they 'd send some of their men over in the tanks to give us a pep talk about the war effort and all that but er , they used to do things like that then to gee you up erm |
| 29 | I wonder if they , they used to do Hi-fi |
| 30 | Yeah , yeah I 'm , I 'm quite big , I used to do They used to do ballet in me . |