Example sentences of "they used [verb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
2 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
3 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
4 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
5 | They used to have them in the in the houses you see . |
6 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
7 | stuff like that , and they used to make them through the winter and come up here in the summer and sell them . |