Example sentences of "[pers pn] used to go [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to go fast when I was first at Perm , and my gut punished me . |
| 2 | My parents used to ignore me when I used to go home and tell them I 'd won a race . |
| 3 | I used to go more or less t'my grandparents , almost every day … |
| 4 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 5 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 6 | And you used to go there and we used to have er anybody mashing the tea what they used to call it . |
| 7 | And er he er we used to go there and play with , you know , three or four hours and keep him company , like . |
| 8 | Oh , I 've been with Joyce since then , when had , used to live at Southwold , or near Southwold , and eh , we used to go there and she , she got killed where all the , she had a , a garden wall of felt sort of Fred Flintstone one , and there was a bend on the Ipswich erm , oh Ipswich Lowestoft road , right where she had this cottage |
| 9 | We and they used to go there when the blacklegs came out . |
| 10 | He used to go here and there . |