Example sentences of "and we [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are only two of us now and we ought to be closer . |
| 2 | It was clever of humankind to invent science and art to supply the deficiencies of nature , and we ought to be proud . |
| 3 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 4 | But erm I th they are worried certainly , one or two of them are worried , but er some of this equipment is left on , and left on unnecessarily and we ought to be encouraging people to switch off what is n't |
| 5 | Well they can Erm so e e and and we ought to provision probably for a thousand . |
| 6 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 7 | And we used to do these er pictures that u used to be on er grey and blue paper and we used to , with white paint we used to make a sort of anything there and then with erm charcoal sticks we used to draw on it . |
| 8 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
| 9 | And we used to There at there at that school every morning we hads to line in the in the playground and he used inspect your hands for cleanliness , and your shoes . |
| 10 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 11 | And we used to be selling them at midnight . |
| 12 | And we used to c as we had nicknames for the ones we did n't like , she was called . |
| 13 | And we used to sort of arrange it when one was n't cooking the other one would be you know and this sort of thing . |
| 14 | There was a lot of stress on resources , and by resources I do n't just mean books in libraries , I mean staffing resources primarily … and we used to be very fierce about the quality of course leadership , for example . |
| 15 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |
| 16 | We had an ongoing er thing you know what I mean that erm er now and again they used to have pushes and we used to out and do a little bit door |
| 17 | Then er on a Saturdays our slaughterhouse was , our slaughterhouse was still open up the street then and we used to perhaps kill twelve , fourteen pigs for private people , but they had to give their ration up , six months ' or twelve months ' ration up to have these pigs . |
| 18 | They used to come home , the sh the show used to shut on a Friday at half past five and they 'd come by train then , years ago , they used to be loaded in London , Liverpool Street or one of the stations there , come down to Soham and we used to , they used to arrive here about er twelve o'clock time in the morning . |
| 19 | And we used to her home in the Wintertime |
| 20 | So I er we used to catch these blackbirds and them in a and pull the string and they used er try and catch them and we used to we used to kill them and and pluck them |
| 21 | And we used to th masses of cousins there and erm one one of my Jean , my cousin about ten months younger than I said , can I have a go Mollie ? |
| 22 | And we used to ha , we used to come down here some some evenings a gang of us remember I used to look ever so small |
| 23 | Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time . |
| 24 | Yes , I know , but erm that was sugar beet now , of course we got to clomp back , with feed , do you know we used to eat that , because we were always hungry too , no matter how well they fed us , we used to eat raw swede and we used to I tell you what we used to do ! |