Example sentences of "we [adv] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
| 2 | We all used to be together on New Year 's Eve , did n't we , Dad ? ’ |
| 3 | And we all used to we we both schools ended up , er used to use the same assembly hall . |
| 4 | ‘ We shall be contributing as much as we possibly can to the home , which is actually in need of 28 new beds , ’ she added . |
| 5 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |
| 6 | We always used to As we got older we all had a little job to do . |
| 7 | Er like such as er like er at er night time before we went , we always used to I had to go to bed early . |
| 8 | And er we always used to pal out together . |
| 9 | And er , a lot of them were younger than me , but I do n't know why but I 've lasted lo But anyway , m me and me sister we always used to , we 'd say to me dad when we went to fetch the milk with me dad . |
| 10 | And it 's my opinion we both ought to be glad for that . ’ |
| 11 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 12 | We really ought to be rehearsing this stuff , well finalising the scripts after half term . |
| 13 | We really ought to be going to some to truss . |
| 14 | But we really ought to er |
| 15 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 16 | But a lot of people would say of course that it is of such importance , that we really ought to be up to date with exactly what 's going on , after all this is happening on our behalf . |
| 17 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 18 | We never used to . |
| 19 | And we never used to we were about three times home in that er five years time . |
| 20 | We never used to be able to go and play anywhere take this one with you . |
| 21 | I said well me and Geoff argue more , I said we never used to cos we never argued a lot did we ? |