Example sentences of "used [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 2 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 3 | Both types have snap-on terminals used to connect them to a detector in a similar way to a PP3 . |
| 4 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 5 | old cart tyres we used to split them up the middle and made shoes . |
| 6 | We used to sell them in the Store . |
| 7 | You used to buy them from the chemist . |
| 8 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 9 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 10 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 11 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yeah we used to trim 'em with a hammer and chisel before |
| 14 | Had the nails in his mouth you know and er used to knock 'em with a file . |
| 15 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 16 | Foggy mornings , you used to gallop them in the fog , the best , gallop horses in the fog . |
| 17 | Her mother used to hang them from a hook in the kitchen ceiling in order to be able to work round them . |
| 18 | And he he used to cook them and do you know we we used to pluck them and we used to roast them by the fire in a |
| 19 | Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages . |
| 20 | I think cos we used to have them on a trolley , yeah mm , I wonder if that |
| 21 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 22 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 23 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 24 | Elaine used to deafen them on the side there ! |
| 25 | Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ . |
| 26 | Yeah , right on the sole and cos we used to take them off the iron and put a bit of leather on and grease the uppers with neat's-foot oil and they were really lovely and warm in the winter . |
| 27 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 28 | stuff like that , and they used to make them through the winter and come up here in the summer and sell them . |
| 29 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 30 | and er he used to , he had a contract with some big potato firm and he used to buy all the , the fertilizer bags in the locality and he used to bring them there to the end of the road and he used to wash them in the burn . |