Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 2 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 3 | I know this is a true story , because when my Aunt Peg was a little girl she used to live next door to Mrs Sugar , who was a witch . |
| 4 | I know this is a true story , because when my Aunt Peg was a little girl she used to live next door to Mrs Sugar , who was a witch . |
| 5 | ‘ When I came to Easington to buy the shop I used to wear tinted glasses , ’ says Italo . |
| 6 | After a while so to , to relieve the boredom we used to throw orange peel at each other , little bits you know , screw it up and , and one hit this bloke who was made foreman before , before he was made foreman a and we had a fight . |
| 7 | the room we used to share ten years ago . |
| 8 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 9 | The weather was bitterly cold , and because there was no heating in Dana 's little room he used to spend all day , and nearly every night , in my warm apartment . |
| 10 | Well my father , when we lived there he worked at the Colliery and he used to walk home and during he s , before before he m before the strike we used to have these pheasants and things , and rabbits which he used to catch , because early morning he seemed to know exactly where to go to get a a pheasant that was roosting in a tree , you see or a bush . |
| 11 | Also from a very early age I used to have erotic fantasies about ships in storms or ships sinking . |
| 12 | At the start we used to copy each other and bounce off each other all the time , and I really gleaned everything I could . |
| 13 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 14 | Before we plunge into that debate we ought to recognize that recruitment to elite positions in the public and private sectors is said to be highly meritocratic . |
| 15 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 16 | Again , if Fiver was right and the whole warren was in imminent peril , then of course they ought to welcome any rabbit who was ready to join them . |
| 17 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 18 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 19 | Used to , we used to put five foals in a a er , take them like two stalls , you take the middle stall out and the top box you used to get five foals in . |
| 20 | Then in back end they used to empty this crew yard and you used to have to handle all that with forks , muck forks , they used to call them , and that was big biggest fork and by God , they used to pull your heart out . |
| 21 | They sat opposite each other in the little Covent Garden restaurant they used to patronize two years ago . |
| 22 | Dr Sergei Barsamian , an original member of the Sydney University team and now involved in independent research , has outlined not only his concept of the creative process but , in simple terms , further explains the model he used to provide scientific evidence which : |
| 23 | Up to last year we used to collect used postage stamps and then when our dear friend Father Burbage left for Zambia we had to abandon it because we had no idea where they were sent to . |
| 24 | ‘ Whenever I went out of my house I used to see any number of revolting things . |
| 25 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 26 | And used to happen twice a year and erm sometimes somebody 'd remember my birthday or find that I had my birthday or and at Christmas time we used to get some money . |
| 27 | You see Walsall being a leather town there was a lot of this er bark tannin as went and when anyone who was ill so they would n't hear the noises of the horse driven vehicles going by they used to , for about fifty yards each side of the house they used to put this stuff in the road to deaden the sound . |
| 28 | At first they did n't think twice about the 132,000 volt power lines above them ; in fact they used to live next door , but one , with a pylon next to their garden fence . |
| 29 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |