Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they used to go around on a Sunday morning from farm to farm to see how the other chaps are getting on and to say how much better their horses looked . |
| 2 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 3 | I used to go out with the London detectives , and these Cockney fellers down in London , they 'd take money off anyone . |
| 4 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 5 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |
| 6 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 7 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 8 | They used to run down into the Nerd , or whatever river it is that runs through Ealing , and throw themselves in , yelling about the love of Jesus . |
| 9 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |