Example sentences of "[vb mod] to have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we used to have nets and nets of oranges and we used to get up in the morning and just squeeze them |
| 2 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 3 | I used to have loads of records , they 're all gone now , scrap |
| 4 | I used to have Physics at half-nine and every now and then she 'd have an accident in the road so I 'd be running home , changing her and taking her back to nursery , which would mean I 'd be half an hour late . |
| 5 | They used to have bread and cheese and a jug of cider under the hedgerow , but I do n't think they even do that any more . |
| 6 | Before you used to have specialist machinery , but now you can go to a shop in your own town and pick up spares so a lot more people are going over . |
| 7 | And we used to have skittles , and what you 'd got to do , for skittles you got to throw to knock them down , do you see ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | and we used to have March |
| 10 | ‘ I used to have lunch there occasionally when I worked for Lewis & Arbuckle — marvellous grub , it was . |
| 11 | I know , but , but you used to have mid-morning snack |
| 12 | We used to have fun ! |
| 13 | We used to have fun , Buffy and me . |
| 14 | like down at the erm , when I was crane driving , we used to have ships coming from Casablanca , with phosphate in and then there be a , another part there was sulphur , then they used to be erm , there 's green oar , what we used to call |
| 15 | Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall . |
| 16 | WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants . |
| 17 | Apparently his chauffeur used to have instructions to drive very slowly through Hyde Park when his employer had a lady companion in the back of his Rolls-Royce . |
| 18 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 19 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 20 | You see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and we could we could talk . |
| 21 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 22 | Aye er th though that were about er and then they used to have Sunday evening conc a bandstand and the town band every every evening , and Sundays singing you know . |
| 23 | Used to have tables and extensions you see |
| 24 | There was twenty week club you see and I do n't know , I mean up until recently I was in the credit when we used to have credit . |
| 25 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 26 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 27 | That they used to have waiters and tables with silver , plated silver |
| 28 | We used to have dress rehearsal , some , I think I got mustard gas burns as well I was supposed to have on my arm er |
| 29 | It was , there 's the basement and then a large room above where they used to have meetings er , you see , and er , and er , well they did they had friends from Stowmarket go and visit them , you see . |
| 30 | Like when we did ‘ Sackville ’ we used to have sex stuff over the end of it , so I think we 've actually played on that . ’ |