Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We used to slide down on a tray , though we were in trouble if he caught us , mind ! |
| 2 | When I lived in southern France I used to sit out on the porch and watch the sun go down across the valley . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And course that used t that used to go down on the bed and when you pulled that be there so many years , your hands all went purple and that 'd be days before that went off . |
| 6 | In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |