Example sentences of "used go [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nadder seemed to carry much more water that used to go under the bridge at a fair old pace . |
| 2 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 3 | ‘ Every summer we used to go to the seaside in Croatia , and I built sandcastles with the other children . |
| 4 | And they used to go and er th odd ones er and they used to go to the houses in the street , there were a chap er down th er that street opposite the er er the every morning . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to go to the printers in Kettering on press day and think up captions , sometimes six or seven for each photograph . |
| 6 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 7 | We used to go through the ritual of taking people off beta blockers , performing exercise tests , returning them to beta blockade and repeating the test . |
| 8 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 9 | He used to go into the market with him . |
| 10 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 11 | When only five years old , he used to go into the bakery with his father before school just for fun . |
| 12 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 13 | And then when I got er old enough I used to go in the gang like the men , and er get the same and piece work we were working loading the ships . |
| 14 | When I was , I used to go in the slaughterhouse with him when I was about nine yeah . |
| 15 | The host used to go after the fall of night , and move particularly after midnight … |
| 16 | Er and then another one was er bottles , we used to go round the back of er er and get a bottle or two bottles and get tuppence , penny on the pint and tuppence on the quart bottles . |