Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 2 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 3 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 4 | In the old days they used to have little houses close together called begins with T |
| 5 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 6 | We must investigate and act to utilize what ways we can to defeat such abuse and division . |
| 7 | However , many Christians nowadays , even though they might admire and approve of Locke 's preparedness to make faith reasonable , would not be happy with the particular arguments he used to establish that reasonableness . |
| 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 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 10 | The chapel was only a single-storey affair and for anniversaries and other big events they used to make extra seats by placing bars of wood between one seat and the next . |