Example sentences of "used [to-vb] those [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember , he used to do those tricks with matches . ’ |
| 2 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 3 | Sammy used to call those engine fires instead of fire engines ! |
| 4 | Before I were yeah , she was on , on war work you see on the hand grenades , that was on the , on the ground floor , of course there were a lot of old cottages er the one at the end , and erm there was something about those oh when , when we did erm er when we did erm locks for the erm hotels there were called , they used to say no they used , there would be about a hundred keys for the guests who clocked in for the er for the hotel and they would each be given a key to the same lock you see , and they used to call those keys to pass , sometimes there was more than a hundred keys to one lock but er wait for the bell or |
| 5 | They used to have those girls that , the girls , she became erm well she was an , she , she was in erm Rushford , you . |
| 6 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 7 | Well we used to make those rings and put the fins on , rivet them on , and the bombs , the , the , the the rings was erm seamlessly weld on a a welder that you two w wheels which were electrically driven and the power was put through them and , and you overlap the two seams like that , and it , as the wheels went round it 'd weld them straight along , they was about eight inches deep seam weld them right down . |