Example sentences of "we used [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And we used to arrange football teams , cricket teams , during the before you went into school , playtime and very often when you came out of school . |
| 2 | Oh we used to lay fire . |
| 3 | We used to use grit and salt . |
| 4 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 5 | And then at the side of the copper there was a gas stove , and there was some shelves where we used to put silver spoons . |
| 6 | We used to stock Playgirl , which had a similar content , but it did not sell . |
| 7 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 8 | Nurseries , or rather what we used to call Market Gardens , where strawberries , soft fruit and vegetables are grown , are able to rest areas between crops and take full advantage of the scratching hen , who manures evenly as she works . |
| 9 | what it was , Foundry Lane though , it was a pudding , what we used to call pudding bag street , there was big circle round the bottom and R D Smith and Sons manufacturers |
| 10 | We used to do needlework and we had to make a needlework apron in gingham , with lots of pockets for your buttons , and your thread , and your bottle of gin and all that … . |
| 11 | Carolyn recalls : ‘ We used to do midnight runs , we were always skimming around London on undercover operations in Diana 's Metro . ’ |
| 12 | It became the armoury then and er we used to do guard duty on the armoury every night there was someone on guard duty . |
| 13 | So here we are lying here just you and me thinking about things that we used to do babe , turning lady ! |
| 14 | We used to do training really tha , that 's aerobics but keep fit is you know in one spot all night and you work your body out . |
| 15 | Yeah we used to love camping , yeah |
| 16 | We used to watch golf up at Birkdale , and I played eventually . |
| 17 | Tom Wood of Burton described the process : ‘ During the school holidays we used to go kill-pricking . |
| 18 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 19 | We used to take hay down to the cavalry barracks in Norwich . |
| 20 | And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away . |
| 21 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 22 | We used to take handful at Powerjets but they said |
| 23 | And we used to have school clothes just piled up there . |
| 24 | Like when we did ‘ Sackville ’ we used to have sex stuff over the end of it , so I think we 've actually played on that . ’ |
| 25 | Cos we used to have support so many cots in the children 's hospital , and we used to run concerts . |
| 26 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 27 | We used to have fun ! |
| 28 | We used to have fun , Buffy and me . |
| 29 | ‘ We used to have strawberry fields , but they were too much work , ’ Mrs Knelle told me . |
| 30 | We used to have dress rehearsal , some , I think I got mustard gas burns as well I was supposed to have on my arm er |