Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You used to come once a week for dinner |
| 2 | I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops . |
| 3 | We used to grow quite a bit of stuff on the land and er we lived . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
| 5 | Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice . |
| 6 | in exchange and they used to do quite a trade in , cos a lot of them were quite skilled at making toys . |
| 7 | They have them at St Ermin 's , of course , and I know Ossie Thames used to get quite a lot of office workers when he had them at St Luke 's . |
| 8 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 9 | So w did you used to have quite a lot of customers who came up from th from there |