Example sentences of "used [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 5 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | old cart tyres we used to split them up the middle and made shoes . |
| 8 | We used to sell them in the Store . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You used to buy them from the chemist . |
| 11 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yeah we used to trim 'em with a hammer and chisel before |
| 18 | Had the nails in his mouth you know and er used to knock 'em with a file . |
| 19 | 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. |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Foggy mornings , you used to gallop them in the fog , the best , gallop horses in the fog . |
| 22 | Her mother used to hang them from a hook in the kitchen ceiling in order to be able to work round them . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages . |
| 25 | I think cos we used to have them on a trolley , yeah mm , I wonder if that |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 29 | Elaine used to deafen them on the side there ! |
| 30 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |