Example sentences of "used [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offline operations are designed on the assumption that there will not be constant manning of the physical units used to mount the offline media . |
| 2 | I used to like the two |
| 3 | ‘ I used to like the little beggar . |
| 4 | I mean , it is different , I never used to like the loose tea , when I was younger , but now I I sort of really taste the difference . |
| 5 | I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time . |
| 6 | you you used to go the weekly meetings the Labour Party . |
| 7 | But erm anyway , the erm and some of the men , used to go The older men , used to go and er to the smithy and cos er the our the s fitting shop had a three fires at one end you see , where the am blacksmiths were . |
| 8 | Overwhelming pain is a term used to emphasise a common result of chronic unrelieved severe cancer pain . |
| 9 | Not so very long ago obstetricians used to perform a little tightening stitch called a ‘ husband 's knot ’ which would narrow the vaginal opening and accelerate the return to vaginal tautness . |
| 10 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 11 | She used to attend the general discussion part and make her views known as to where the next shop would be . |
| 12 | Having pondered the operating characteristics of the circuit , the next criterion in our list relates to the space available in the housing used to accommodate the finished board . |
| 13 | THE CURRENT recession has certainly laid to rest forever the myth that public relations is a lightweight ‘ luxury ’ service used to indulge the chief executive . |
| 14 | Dickie was in the gardens there , Pammie drove two tractor driver , Jo , Jo was the , where 's Jo , Jo was the dairy , milk , then I used to drive the other tractor when we wanted two , and what we did we all could take over from the milker when she was off , or Pammie , we could all interchange . |
| 15 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 16 | However , there were occasional instances where the ‘ right attitude ’ was undercut by two other interpretative processes which are crucial to the operation of discretion : the typifications used to classify the potential offender and the ‘ reasonableness of the excuse ’ . |
| 17 | Savage dogs used to kill a protected species for sport . |
| 18 | BSE is creating panic to a certain extent , but BTB used to kill an awful lot of children . |
| 19 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 20 | She used to wear a spotless white blouse with an enormous black bow on her chest and always wore her rehearsal pants very long . |
| 21 | He was unconventional — he always used to wear a woolly cap and refused to wear a tie . |
| 22 | I always used to wear a yellow overall , yellow . |
| 23 | They used to wear a lot of the collars with a , with a wing on the hard collar , you know , they used to wear a hard collar then . |
| 24 | And er of course everybody there were only about what half a dozen fitters in those days and erm er as a mark of their profession or trade in those days , they used to wear a white collar you know , with out a tie . |
| 25 | Years ago when I used to see the young masters going off to their boarding schools … you too , I used to envy you all . |
| 26 | Sometimes I used to see the funny side of these sessions , but he was not one to tolerate flippancy and more than once I received the rough side of his tongue . |
| 27 | I used to that , I used to see the old fellas doing |
| 28 | but I used to see an Edwardian bicyclist , |
| 29 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 30 | Thon wee Marie Tress that used to work the upper circle got stuck ahint the safe in the office way him an he vernear tane the blouse affer . |