Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then of course and then when we used to go to pictures in afternoon Saturday afternoons when we was little . |
| 2 | We used to work with protractors on paper , measuring out the four angles viewable through each of the turret lenses . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to work on commercials for funeral parlours , ’ he went on . |
| 4 | Oh they used to come with boxes of jewellery and stuff and thing . |
| 5 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 6 | It was like one of the sentences that used to come in letters from home : ‘ Do let me know if there 's anything I can do . ’ |
| 7 | The method used to adjust for changes in household size and composition , known as an ‘ equivalence scale ’ , can affect results . |
| 8 | Branding also occurs in certain consumer services , such as transport — Blue Riband , Economy , Four Star , Ambassador are all titles that are , or have been , used to differentiate between levels of service . |
| 9 | The Asylum Bill , published in November 1991 , intended to ensure ‘ a substantial acceleration and simplification of the procedures used to deal with applications for asylum ’ . |
| 10 | The previous Bill , intended to ensure ‘ a substantial acceleration and simplification of the procedures used to deal with applications for asylum ’ , met with widespread criticism from the House of Lords , UN High Commissioner for Refugees , the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster , the Bar Council and many organisations including AI . |
| 11 | She may look back with longing to the coffee-breaks and lunch hours she used to share with colleagues at work , which may seem in retrospect to have been so full of interest- and best of all , laughter , forgetting any strains that existed in her job . |