Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Among their feudal ancestors however the long time during which estates used to continue in the same family sufficiently demonstrated the general disposition of people to live within their income . |
| 3 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 4 | A girl from another broken family ‘ used to sleep in the same bed as grandma — I was sleeping with her the night she was found dead the following morning . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Deictic or other definite referring expressions are often used to introduce a referent , and anaphoric pronouns used to refer to the same entity thereafter . |
| 7 | I started coming just after Mike came — that was four seasons ago , and Martin he came two seasons ago and he used to live in the same street as me . ’ |
| 8 | and in one of the rooms he used to have these girlie pin-ups of the dame , these portraits of all these women he used to fancy in a few years time . |
| 9 | Now Owen shared a similar cultural background to Morrissey — he used to hang around the same clubs , he was singer with the post punk band Manicured Noise , a band often linked with Morrissey 's beloved Ludus , and the feature was a fascinating if bewildering jumble of nostalgic bonhomie . |