Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I I do you know I 've been back since but I just could n't find it now , but there it 'll be , but on the side of the er at , he used to preach at this mission , there was only him you know used to preach , and I do n't know how many other people were at , it would n't hold above er would n't hold above thirty . |
| 2 | They used to signal to each other when there was trouble about . ’ |
| 3 | Er and they used to sit in that . |
| 4 | The grandfather , a former soldier in India and retired horseman , had had a leg amputated : ‘ he ended up wi' a stump , so he used to sit in this … old chair in the corner … and nurse Aunt Lillie 's children . ’ |
| 5 | Well I used to go to that one . |
| 6 | Well I had one like that , you know when we used to go to that gym up in Chelsea ? |
| 7 | Rosenstein used to go to all the country villages before me doing fillings and extractions for half-price . ’ |
| 8 | I used to go to all the erm exhibitions Olympia and GMEX and all of those . |
| 9 | I heard about that : when I was just twenty and used to go to these pubs — The Dog and so on — the boys there would talk about a settin' in . |
| 10 | I used to go to these houses with all the other kids , and you could hear the parents , someone would say , but he 's not very like his father , and then they 'd all explain in voices you could hear a mile away , and I would get funny looks from all the rest . |
| 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 | But I knew , it makes me laugh because when Joe used to go to these do-it-yourself places I used to say , oh come on Joey ! |
| 13 | And me mother , she lived at , that 's not far from Peterborough , and she er Me father used to go to this here farm , me mother lived , and of course they got in with each other , then they got married and then they wanted to buy a caravan . |
| 14 | some of the gods erm they believe in erm both erm but certainly there were Hindu and Buddhist temples and erm people used to go to both . |
| 15 | But during the er strike he used to go out purposely to get them and he used to go onto these fields . |
| 16 | And erm some houses used to some houses used to go up some steps and two steps and The one where I used to be and you went you used to go up two steps . |
| 17 | I used to go on these escapades with a mate of mine who 's now a milkman , and we 'd go to Soho , and I remember walking along Wardour Street and hearing this music coming out the basement . |
| 18 | He would probably have got shop by the local farmers if he 'd been caught but er he used to go on these local fields and er and er sn snare rabbits you see , or get a rabbit . |
| 19 | No do n't worry about it , seriously , we all used to have this , yeah , we used to go on these manic diets |
| 20 | I used to go with half a ton of sweets in my back pocket . |
| 21 | beautiful , we used to go for some lovely walks did n't we ? |
| 22 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 23 | We used to go in that darn stuff all day long , and you can imagine the pickle we were in , all that sticky molasses . |
| 24 | And they did n't have three days on and three days off , you used to go in this particular shop at eight o'clock and maybe finish at half past ten or eleven o'clock because there was no more skins coming through . |
| 25 | because I used to have when I used to go around these for breakfast I 'd always have an orange juice and my cereal and then my fried breakfast it 's the only time I 'd eat a fried breakfast . |
| 26 | And there used to be like a big bobbin there and you to and they used to go like that and chuck it up and try and catch it you know , and And we used to play shuttlecock and battledore . |
| 27 | Er I I us I used to go by half past five , have my tea early and did n't come out till about nine o'clock . |
| 28 | Then the old old binder used to come in with two two year old stalwarts , horses , and he used to go round this field and it used to take him days . |
| 29 | No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing . |
| 30 | And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away . |