Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to like to striptease in public . |
| 2 | Er and I used to go to night school to learn , er National Council of Labour Colleges , to learn economics . |
| 3 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 4 | Did you used to go to church |
| 5 | Oh yes I used to g I used to go to church regularly every Sunday . |
| 6 | When I was in Holloway I used to go to education but that was just to get out of my cell . |
| 7 | He used to go to school erm Mr , I think that was the headmaster same sort of name . |
| 8 | When we used to go to school in the morning I used to have to lift the bonnet up to see if she |
| 9 | My erm my dad 's mum , they used to go to school Monday , Tuesday Wednesday morning , have Wednesday afternoon off , all day Thursday , all day Friday and Saturday morning ! |
| 10 | You know , and I mean where he used to go to school they did n't teach them them till they were ten ! |
| 11 | Andy who I used to go to school with . |
| 12 | I used to , I used to go to school gate , me mum used to hang it through |
| 13 | We used to go to bed earlier the day before , not so much to please mother as to bring to-morrow a bit sooner . |
| 14 | he , er , he , when he went , when he first come there , he used to go to bed seven o'clock |
| 15 | Yes , cos I always used to go to bed a lot earlier than you guys . |
| 16 | Aye , we 've done all sorts of things , there was er I used to go to chapel as well I I we were we were compelled to go to chapel . |
| 17 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 18 | Luke used to go to confession . ’ |
| 19 | He used to go to work on pushbike . |
| 20 | I used to go to work fearful of the dialogue I was putting on the screen . |
| 21 | You used to go to work , I worked in the bank then , and the |
| 22 | It did n't give me a very positive image to actually find other people , but I used to go to South London drag pubs , such as the Vauxhall , with schoolfriends when we were in sixth form . |
| 23 | He used to go to Goose Fair , and all the fairs , whatever they was , but it was only for three days . |
| 24 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 25 | When we used to go to town he used to get her out and carry her . |
| 26 | And we used to go to town , we used to have really good , good er good day erm we used to have a procession and erm local , course local dignitaries used to come er , I I 've got a , one or two pictures in my scrapbook where erm it , I was asking , telling Jean she would have to look up er when we did begin trendsetters . |
| 27 | But there were seven in all these streets here and we never used they never used to go to town . |
| 28 | Yeah I used to go to playgroup when er she used to take Adam and our , I used to take our Lee up . |
| 29 | Poor Philip was particularly bothered by this symptom because he had perfect pitch and being in the music business used to go over music in his mind most of his waking hours . |
| 30 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |