Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 2 | The German conjunctions used to signal this structure ( Einerseits ‘ on the one hand ’ , aber … andererseits ‘ but on the other hand ’ ) are more transparent than the mixture of causal Because and adversative But used in the English text . |
| 3 | This would be obvious from the birth certificate if unchanged ; and if , as has been proposed , an amended certificate has been granted , the code used to signal this fact would alert the registrar . |
| 4 | The remedies used to treat sick people are actually capable of producing similar symptoms and diseases to those present in the patient needing that remedy . |
| 5 | Albie used to like that dog . |
| 6 | The case centres around a Mr X , accused with several others of setting up a bogus merchant bank used to conduct fraudulent transactions . |
| 7 | There are subdivisions within the Brahmin caste and Chari belonged to one of them : her dead husband used to conduct religious ceremonies for the Harijans of the area . |
| 8 | A final , arithmetical method used to estimate correct weight is this . |
| 9 | There was two of them and they used to go all day at the quarry for to get bring the slates down to . |
| 10 | I often used to go fell walking but can not ever remember seeing the deep ruts caused by walkers that were all around , in some cases up to 12–15in deep . |
| 11 | And he used to go to these houses Dunoon and them and er all the way down and around the promenade around the south parade and er and he used to go these houses with all these and then there were some er black and white minstrels in the valley . |
| 12 | The kitchen table was covered with homework , dictionaries , ring notebooks and ‘ All you Need to Know about the Russian Revolution ’ pulled out of the huge pieces of luggage Henrietta took every day to school , books used to erect tottering towers wherever the family was next about to eat . |
| 13 | Fiona Richmond , who used to perform sexual test drives for men for one of Paul Raymond 's raunchy magazines , shared a bath with the Palace players . |
| 14 | It was switched off in 1989 , and now the hundred foot long pipes used to carry hot carbon dioxide to run the giant turbines producing electricity are coming down . |
| 15 | The hundred ton gas ducts used to carry pressurized carbon dioxide from the reactors to drive the giant turbines which produced the electricity for half of Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | It was made in the 15th century and meant to keep holy relics but , at its feet , newly married couples used to promise each other eternal love and fidelity . |
| 17 | The steam produced by this process is in turn used to drive large turbines which generate electricity in exactly the same way as in any other conventional power station . |
| 18 | Handguns used to kill four workmen |
| 19 | We used to kill three bullocks a week and about nine sheep , |
| 20 | In an age when even the most liberal of Mughal Emperors used to demolish Hindu temples , this was both a brave and novel work ; but some considered Dara 's views not just unusual but actually heretical . |
| 21 | Your Home must not be left without a responsible person in attendance unless as far as you or your representatives are aware the intruder alarm including all British Telecommunication lines used to transmit any signal/call is fully operational and working . |
| 22 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 23 | I was n't into fashion at all , I used to wear second hand stuff . ’ |
| 24 | Some of them used to wear normal clothes if they were going home afterwards , some would come in uniform but without their keys . |
| 25 | He used to wear yellow ties and trendily-cut suits in eye-catching colours . |
| 26 | ‘ I never used to wear any pants . |
| 27 | When I left Uganda , people used to wear tight pyamas and Kamiz , but these too they did not approve of . |
| 28 | ‘ When I came to Easington to buy the shop I used to wear tinted glasses , ’ says Italo . |
| 29 | Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles . |
| 30 | I used to wear clear glass spectacles , although I did n't need them . ’ |