Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Albie used to like that dog . |
| 4 | There was two of them and they used to go all day at the quarry for to get bring the slates down to . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yeah I used to like , we used to see each other sort of and I |
| 8 | ‘ Whenever I went out of my house I used to see any number of revolting things . |
| 9 | And they used to wh Why they used to work this breeding you see , they used to ad well some people in the South stallions they wanted to travel to Orkney to make money and advertise them . |
| 10 | Er well er the just these two people that retired there , er they used to come this man in a car from , that was their lift to their work . |
| 11 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 12 | In public health , this was the method used to establish that cigarette-smoking is a major cause of lung cancer , and it was also the key technique used to identify some of the factors involved in the spread of HIV infection . |
| 13 | However , many Christians nowadays , even though they might admire and approve of Locke 's preparedness to make faith reasonable , would not be happy with the particular arguments he used to establish that reasonableness . |
| 14 | Well she said they used to pass each other on the way to , going to work and er , one would say it 's dirty this morning Joe aye it , it mucky Robin |
| 15 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 16 | The Greeks used to know this part of the world well , and a scattering of them still live in Romania , Bulgaria and as far east as Ukraine . |
| 17 | The means the Court used to reach that result are open to question . |
| 18 | ‘ That is an authentic World War II pillbox , built in 1940 under the supervision of a man called Fisher who actually used to own this farm . |
| 19 | On the other hand , bilirubin concentration increases with the severity of liver cirrhosis and , in fact , is one of the variables used to evaluate this severity . |
| 20 | ‘ BR used to organise these type of specials themselves but when they stopped doing them we thought we would step in , ’ added one of the organisers , Lancaster Railman Nigel Bryer . |
| 21 | The phase usually used to cover this situation is ‘ permanent arms economy ’ . |
| 22 | Change References : a sequential number , used to identify each change , allocated on receipt of the Change Request Form |
| 23 | Oh ah we used to get together and we used to discuss each other you know what we could take and what we could n't take . |
| 24 | They used to help each other . |
| 25 | This westernmost part of the Soviet Union used to draw little attention , except from spies . |
| 26 | I used to hate it when Nanny put rags in my hair and , whenever I had a wish , I used to wish that mine was curly like yours . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , what we call a new cut , we dredge right opposite the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all and we used to do that tide time , had to work at ti tides , when it 's high tide , cos that otherwise there were n't any water there at all . |
| 28 | Mark used to do that man , Mark used to shave his eyebrows like here o on top and on , on the sides . |
| 29 | If someone tells me used to do that aswell Ill believe it , and put him up there with Melvyn . |
| 30 | ‘ We used to do that sort of thing in Paris . |