Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to slide down on a tray , though we were in trouble if he caught us , mind ! |
| 2 | He thought walking was old-fashioned , so he used to go round in a wheelchair . ’ |
| 3 | He used to go around with a jug of orange juice to drum home to people that it is impossible to earn more unless more is produced . |
| 4 | A third friend said , " One time I used to go around with a load of boys who wanted to break people 's windows , so I just left . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Used to go around as a foursome . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp . |
| 9 | We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch . |
| 10 | I used to go out for a drink now and again . |
| 11 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 12 | And I used to go along with a well a finger you see and , That 's not been dusted you see . |
| 13 | and I suppose , I , I well I , I used to go about with a gang but we , we never raided anybody . |
| 14 | Train passengers used to stand up as a mark of respect when they passed Mother Volga , but not any more . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He used to come in for a couple of drinks . |
| 17 | And worse , before an extraction he used to clank about in a tin box , producing a series of hideous forceps and examining them , whistling softly , till he found the right one . |
| 18 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 19 | You really ought to hop over for a weekend and see it , Anne . |