Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to dive off the first board |
| 2 | I used to go to the Botanical Gardens and sit in the sun , or wander round the aviaries admiring the birds of magnificent plumage . |
| 3 | After school , I used to go to the familiar places in the forest of my village . |
| 4 | Well to jump on the bandwagon I used to go to the same school as Batts and although he 's a couple of years older than I am one of my friends sisters used to beat him up . |
| 5 | And I used to go to the Methodist Chapel that was opposite the school , there . |
| 6 | I used to go into the rolling mills and watch them rolling steel sheets and over about half an hour there , this was Saturday after Saturday after Saturday I used to do this . |
| 7 | Then I used to go round the fucking I 'd say why did n't you waken me be |
| 8 | I used to sleep in the same bed as my mother and father because of the shortage of space , but one morning I woke up in another room and I looked out and saw the undertaker standing at the top of the stairs . |
| 9 | Cos I used to live on the top floor . |
| 10 | I used to argue in the nineteen sixties that Britain should become the fifty first state but I 'm not so sure about that . |
| 11 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 12 | And er I used to think in the old days that bookbinding was a very common thing , but since I 've grown er and gone through the world , I thought he was a very clever man . |
| 13 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
| 14 | I used to smell of the old cows . |
| 15 | so and they then erm I have got some friends I used to know as the little school but they 've left now . |
| 16 | I used to believe in the Protestant work ethic , in the virtue of a regular twelve-hour working day , deluding myself that this was the only way to achieve excellent business results , kidding myself that I actually enjoyed going home exhausted on Friday evening , taking with me a whole bundle of weekend paperwork . |
| 17 | As I crossed the North Bridge each day on my way to the dreariness of St Andrew 's House , I used to look across the cold Firth of Forth , and Housman 's lines hammered in my brain : |
| 18 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 19 | I do n't know who well I do n't know whether you ought to write to the chief constable and explain the situation , all the |
| 20 | Her husband , looking hard at his glass , said : ‘ You ought to keep on the right side of her , any road . |
| 21 | He described the proceedings as a " high-tech lynching for those uppity blacks who dare to deviate from the old rules . " |
| 22 | I mentioned the incident at Land 's End and was told that it was not unusual for student pilots who dare to stray into the military areas to receive a safe wingtip and tail helicopter escort home , leaving the student a gibbering wreck long after returning to the club house . |
| 23 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 24 | Not that he knew much about him — English , of course , related to an old friend who used to serve in the Royal Navy and had asked Sanders to accommodate his young kinsman for a week or two as a favour . |
| 25 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 26 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 27 | HOWARD : … you used to believe in the British Empire . |
| 28 | Aye , well I mean the social activities you used to have in the old place , were th were those any better than over here ? |
| 29 | Use a separate mains socket for each lamp unit , and spread the electrical load over as many circuits as you can to keep within the current ratings . |
| 30 | We know that we ought to care for the subnormal precisely because they are subnormal : they are weak , defenceless , at our mercy . |