Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to smoke as much smack as I could lay me hands on . |
| 2 | In Uganda I used to wear very beautiful clothes but after my daughter 's birth I do n't know what happened to me . |
| 3 | I used to do just occasional jobs you know . |
| 4 | ‘ I followed you both the way I used to do so many years ago . |
| 5 | Well I must admit , I have , I mean I do n't do well I used to make quite nice cakes , since I 've had this new cooker mine wo n't ri I mean they rise , there 's no doubt about that , they rise , but I can take them out , put them on a cooling rack and watch them deflate ! |
| 6 | " I used to feel so miserable dieting , always thinking about foods I wanted but could not eat . |
| 7 | I used to have so much illusion , " she said later . |
| 8 | There is a popular idea that when the flight data recorder is recovered from a crashed aircraft the investigator has merely to read an indicator inside it which will tell him just what the cause of the accident was , eliminating the need for all the tedious investigation practices which used to take so much time . |
| 9 | She used to wear very thick-lensed spectacles , and they were thick , very thick . |
| 10 | She used to play really voluptuous ones in the earlier ones and then she was the old tramp was n't she ? |
| 11 | like , they were on you used to get about five bob a week . |
| 12 | Well they usually out out of the er hydrant on the quay cos the hydrant on the quay there used to be a water main a the water main used to go along there and we used to put so much water into the boat and now we come down and used to pump that out and then go back after some more . |
| 13 | He 'd roar with laughter , I suppose , and then ask me what was all this about ‘ little ’ , and we 'd get into some absurd argument about whether he was five feet two or five feet four , end up reviling and swearing at and abusing each other in utter good humour as we used to do often several times a week on the ‘ phone . |
| 14 | I mean we used to go about three times four times did n't we and we oh I bet every time we went she gave him a twenty packet of number ten . |
| 15 | By the end of it , some members may have forgotten the reasons for the whole idea , so let us recap briefly : there are economies of scale , certainly , though the addition of 6,500 members to 100,000 does not in itself produce any great saving in CIB operating costs ( we used to recruit nearly three times that number of new members from the banks alone in a good year in the 1980s ) ; there is potential recruitment , from more than 60,000 building society employees ; but , above all , the merger demonstrates to the public that two major parts of the much maligned financial services sector are keen to improve their standards , and gives commercial rivals an exceptional opportunity to enjoy the benefits of co-operation in educational endeavour . |
| 16 | In the old days we used to have very inefficient coal fires , burning in open grates , which to produce a reasonable heat used a significant amount of fuel . |
| 17 | We used to play together real well — that 's what Mrs Seaton said . |
| 18 | Oh yes , yes , they even had like they used to have savings ' weeks er salute the soldier week , they used to have promotions for National Savings you see and we used to get so much money or where they had a bid thermometer on the car park in Street which is now the extension of the Gala Baths and they used to show how much savings had been put in they used to have targets for people , to put the National Savings in , they used to have an Anglo-American friendship week . |
| 19 | It is essential that we should do all that we can to take as many schools as possible out of local education authority control and place them under the control of governors and parents . |
| 20 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 21 | That was the mud , cos they used to put so much sewage into the river |
| 22 | when they used to put er the muck on the fields they used to put so many loads of eight and so many heaps of the well , when they pulled it out of the room they 'd pulls out the crome . |
| 23 | Mm , they used to have like big dances and thin in the Grand Hall of all places , but music was once a year , things like that but they do n't have that now . |
| 24 | The reality is that they need to get their hands on as much first-class football as they can to fill that much air time . |
| 25 | The churches , however , are doing all they can to encourage as much dialogue as possible and to ensure that effective communication plays a key role in the democratic process . |
| 26 | It seems that the aunt used to cadge cigarettes from Eliot , and Powell remembers how he used to enjoy long solitary walks , wearing a cap and carrying a stick . |
| 27 | ‘ He is ideal because he is both a statesman and an artist [ he used to write rather stodgy plays ] , and we believe he shares the values we stand for , ’ says an ICA spokesman . |
| 28 | He used to have very definite ideas of , of er how to treat children . |