Example sentences of "then we [modal v] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then we ought to go back . ’ |
| 2 | And it would seem to me that unless this morning 's exercise which has been so rewarding and so profitable unless this morning 's exercise is to dissipate into another piece of feeling and er pleasurable discussion then we ought to take quite seriously the , the words of Jesus . |
| 3 | Carrie said slowly , ‘ If you really do hate it here , then we ought to tell someone . ’ |
| 4 | Diana , and then we ought to come to a decision . |
| 5 | I 'll phone up and then we ought to get you something . |
| 6 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 7 | And then we used to call them because that 's where we were feeding them do you see . |
| 8 | Buckets , well every night time , when we finished dredging , you had to wash down , wash the decks down cos I mean that the decks used to be covered in mud and slush , so all we had then was an old draw bucket on a bit of rope , over the side , there were n't no hoses then , we used to the bucket and then we used to swing all the mud back in there , in the river . |
| 9 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 10 | And then we used to feed them on these rakings there do you see . |
| 11 | And then we used to listen with our ear on the ground and we could hear where the dog was do you see , and then we used to dig down there because we knew it was fighting there with the with a vixen do you see . |
| 12 | And then we used to fence it half . |
| 13 | We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off |
| 14 | Some did , some had them full and some did n't and er there was a toilet and a a toilet and a coal house across the yard and then we used to go in the back door and there was a tiny little kitchen . |
| 15 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 16 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 17 | And then we used to put these loops the through the loops and tie their legs to the string . |
| 18 | And then we used to put some coops there and small runs for them and we used to carry them there , every night because they settled down better in the night than in the daytime . |
| 19 | And a chain there and we used to tie her to this chain so that she could get into the box and out again , and then we used to put the cubs there first in the straw and then we used to put her there do you see . |
| 20 | And a chain there and we used to tie her to this chain so that she could get into the box and out again , and then we used to put the cubs there first in the straw and then we used to put her there do you see . |
| 21 | And then we used to play games with him and we were going to invent a game that did n't exist because whatever you said , Mr Brynner always said , ‘ Well , as a matter of fact I was world champion pistol shot , ’ or ‘ I 'm the world champion ’ of whatever it was you mentioned . |
| 22 | So that was the start of and lots of different And then we used to get er maybe a wee special jobs in for antiques . |
| 23 | Then we used to keep , after we got across the road , we used to keep two carts there and two ponies all the times , you see cos , |
| 24 | And er they used to trade up and down this room , Miss I 'll be wearing such and such a dress and it 'll be such and such a colour and er then we used to make the hat for it . |
| 25 | And then we used to make crayon patterns of the top and then when they went whizzing round they used to look very pretty . |
| 26 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 27 | Then we used to sniff , you know , and Mrs come and knocked on the front door says er , our house is asleep do you mind not playing , you know . |
| 28 | And erm then we used to have straw and inch wide by the yard . |
| 29 | Collect patterns , take them back and the head used to pick and then we used to have to go and buy what they wanted you see , the amount of material they wanted . |
| 30 | An and then we used to have to and there was no no such a thing as bales in those days , duckie . |