Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 2 | It is true there was a lot of housework but I used to be very lonely . |
| 3 | I had friends there but I used to just start crying before I was due to go . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But I used to actually paint myself black and wear an Afro wig ! |
| 5 | But I used to actually paint myself black and wear an Afro wig ! |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't do a lot of it now , ’ confessed Lydia , ‘ but I used to . |
| 7 | But I used to th I er used to stick to my bit of stick . |
| 8 | But I used to s shift them and they used to say to me , You know how to shift them . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's coincidental , but I used to be in a band at school called The Frogmen now I 'm in The Crickets , ’ says Alex . |
| 10 | But I used to quite enjoy the erm the , the shows , the s the song and dance routines , they were funny . |
| 11 | ‘ I wo n't tell anyone , ’ said Gabriel , ‘ but you ought to be wearing a cloak on a night like this . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know , sir , but you ought to . ’ |
| 13 | Bad news that one , but you used to be pretty friendly , did n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 15 | But she ought to . |
| 16 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
| 17 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 18 | ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies . |
| 19 | But we ought to be aware of what values we 're holding in in various |
| 20 | It could be that nothing can be done , but we ought to be seen to be taking action over this . |
| 21 | But we ought to . |
| 22 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |
| 23 | But we used to Littlewoods used to give us an order , for one machine , or two machines , and you could keep your machine on this one particular set of curtains , without changing your jacks , without changing your beams , without changing your bodies , you could work straight on and on and on . |
| 24 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
| 25 | But we used to l I think I can remember going three times and we went on the train and we would have a big label with branch number seven , we were Walsall Wood and we were always told that , you know , you look on the sea front if you get lost , cos you 've got your name and who you belong to on card was all given out . |
| 26 | But they ought to be encouraged to look over the fence at at er |
| 27 | They used to have big windows , but they used to a all be them there little tiny ones like that . |
| 28 | And I and I do n't know whether they still have the wooden lockers now but they used to be , have to be all scrubbed out every week . |
| 29 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 30 | But they used to I had my house packed to the wall . |