Example sentences of "used [to-vb] at [adj] " 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 | Me father used to sit at one side of the fireplace and me aunt at the other one , and they would sit and talk about the Bible . |
| 3 | In the past , according to Mackenzie , they used to sit at opposite ends of the site firing off hostile letters to each other . |
| 4 | DiCillo , who adapted Johnny Suede from a monologue he used to perform at downtown New York clubs , says casting the lead was the most depressing experience of his life — until Pitt showed up . |
| 5 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 6 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 7 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 8 | A group of like-minded individuals used to meet at each other 's house on a Monday nearest the full moon . |
| 9 | If one had got thruppence he could go in the pub and get get stop in there nearly for nearly The pubs used to open at six o'clock you know till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 10 | We used to play at various pubs , and the Pidar Wakefield in Grays Inn Road with The Pogues . |
| 11 | I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats |
| 12 | They altered it , you used to leave at fifteen did n't you ? |
| 13 | Although the average working week was still forty-eight hours , most men at that time had been reared when toil used to start at six o'clock in the morning and carried on until eight each evening . |
| 14 | From Redgrave they used to start at six in the morning ; and there used to be a string of horses , tied head to tail , going from Redgrave to Billingford . |
| 15 | Mr , the bar local barber , who 's son lives next door , for years , he used to start at nine o'clock in the morning and finish at nine o'clock at night . |
| 16 | W. S. The Black Maria used to call at different stations at two in the morning and take the prisoners from there to Cheapside . |
| 17 | My mother used to sing at these . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to return to the nice friendly atmosphere we used to have at this club with Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in charge and chairman Albert Alexander , who left everyone to get on with their job . |
| 19 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |
| 20 | And they used to moan at each other : ‘ Your system sounds different from my system … |
| 21 | She used to ring at nine thirty in the morning when Will was in surgery . |
| 22 | I 've heard say that Grandad used to rise at five o'clock in the morning during summertime to water the garden , all carried by hand , of course . |