Example sentences of "and they [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 2 | On the one hand , educationalists have argued that segregation of handicapped pupils is wrong and they ought to be taught in ordinary schools , albeit with special lessons and equipment provided , in order that they do not lose touch with ordinary children . |
| 3 | Those are words which could be used to describe the righteousness of Paul ; and they ought to be appropriate for us too . |
| 4 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 5 | And they used to , not make anything , but they used to do the labouring , movement of work and all like that . |
| 6 | And I was downstairs and they used to be up upstairs was the man what cut all the stuff up , do you see ? |
| 7 | There 's some people at the flat out there and they used to bricks at the windows and things like that . |
| 8 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 9 | And they used to erm er get this er net or lace right what they were gon na what they after it 'd been starched and everything . |
| 10 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 11 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 12 | And they used to be like ham . |
| 13 | And , and whenever they knew you 've come would you , would you walk through and , and they used to for us every time an tha and that in those days they 'd give you a couple of bob which is , it was a fortune to me at that age . |
| 14 | There used to be a chap named They used to work on th on the trams , and they used to , used to seem to work in families like , you know . |
| 15 | And they used to go to Belgium , they , they er walked them through to get a boat at Newcastle and they used to got to Belgium for |
| 16 | I heard , when I started looking into the project at first that erm , the women used to do most of the weaving but you do n't actually do the weaving now , and they used to basically you know make up the , the larger part of the work force , is that the case now ? |
| 17 | And they used to run from here to Harwich , Felixstowe , that used to be their run , all run by the you could you could get a bus oh you could go down go on them boats and you go to Harwich , Felixstowe and then get off at Felixstowe and come on the bus if you wanted to . |
| 18 | Yeah , they would , let the bake it we used to Danish foods and cos we used to have a Danish er , we used to have erm Polish ship come in one week and an English ship come in the next week and the , the bacon was just pigs were all killed , wrapped in sacking and tied with string , and they used to be laid in the hold like that . |
| 19 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
| 20 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 21 | I think that 's where they got the idea and they used to be all leather , thigh boots . |
| 22 | and they used to erm , they were ornithologists |
| 23 | And they used to wh Why they used to work this breeding you see , they used to ad well some people in the South stallions they wanted to travel to Orkney to make money and advertise them . |
| 24 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 25 | And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all . |
| 26 | And they used to be coming erm about the end of September through the beginning of November , they used to come to the beach from different directions , during that time . |
| 27 | w er only sailing boats and they used to be anchored here years ago , down on the beach there . |
| 28 | And they used to Two men on the shore loading , course there was men counting the slates do you see . |
| 29 | Well after the , the aircraft had actually er left the airport to go , be handed back to the RAF they said sometimes had to be serviced or final adjustments made and that 's what they used to go out there for but erm Helliwells was ver it was still , all through the war it was Helliwells aircraft they used to have their own lorries and everything and they used to erm , be under the auspices of the Air Ministry but it was very much a private company . |
| 30 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |