Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to go down to the clogger 's shop , which was at the bottom of the road where they lived , and he used to make toast , make a drink , and they used to sit round by the light of a candle , eating toast and drinking . |
| 2 | When I lived in southern France I used to sit out on the porch and watch the sun go down across the valley . |
| 3 | At about 2am I used to go up to the lab . |
| 4 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 5 | So when you say you used to go up to the pool . |
| 6 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 7 | used to go round with the milk you know |
| 8 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 9 | He ‘ used to go round by the harbour . |
| 10 | In the 1920s , Dundas Hamilton 's father , Arthur Hamilton , used to go off to the Stock Exchange each day with a bag containing socks and shoes . |
| 11 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 12 | ‘ We used to go down to the park on Sunday afternoons , taking the children down when they were very young . |
| 13 | At nights he used to go down to the shore and look out across the sea you see and he wondered what was happening back home at Greentoft and fairly homesick . |
| 14 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
| 15 | They used to go down to the clogger 's shop , which was at the bottom of the road where they lived , and he used to make toast , make a drink , and they used to sit round by the light of a candle , eating toast and drinking . |
| 16 | And course that used t that used to go down on the bed and when you pulled that be there so many years , your hands all went purple and that 'd be days before that went off . |
| 17 | I , I used to walk it there when I went there , e even from Lane I never used to get on the bus I , I used to walk it down there cos we used to go down by the side of , of the old Street cemetery you know over by the gas works and up Street the erm |
| 18 | I used to go out of the farmhouse at night , into the garden . |
| 19 | I used to go out with the London detectives , and these Cockney fellers down in London , they 'd take money off anyone . |
| 20 | In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan . |
| 21 | I eh , we used to go out to the West Mersea a lot , during the summer , you know , when it , when I was at Colchester doing , mm , swimming , nice swimming and eh , . |
| 22 | Another time was about October , I do n't know what he was doing with them , but in October , middle of October , we used to go out to the beach and shoot erm Oh what do you call them now ? |
| 23 | Time was you used to go out to the pictures to see something new , to escape endless reruns of old TV shows . |
| 24 | If there was a moon she used to go out into the yard , and look at the moon , and prophesy what the world was going to be like tomorrow . |
| 25 | He used to go out in the air raids and watch the anti aircraft shells bursting in the sky because he said they looked like beautiful flowers . |
| 26 | When we used to go out in the street , I would be on one side of the matron holding her arm , my sister on the other side doing the same . |
| 27 | They used to go out in the morning to these houses , then they 'd give a performance on the sands . |
| 28 | You paid a small fee you see or a small charge to have this and the your mother used to put the the dough in the tin and er a little s bit of paper with the name on it , you see with a name on it and that used to go in to the oven . |
| 29 | Or the little portable sundials which shepherds used to carry up into the mountains to tell the time by ; or , a last reassuringly bucolic reminder that Bayonne 's fighting days are over , an English bayonet from the Napoleonic wars converted for stripping corn-cobs . |
| 30 | We used to drive around to the end of runways . |