Example sentences of "used to have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain Burrows may have been the head of the household but Mrs Burrows was definitely the heart.Joyce used to have terrible nightmares about what would happen to " all the little children " if God did not answer her prayers to keep mother " safe and well and strong " . |
| 2 | No , not then , they all had cara well they used to have wee things they could stick on a a cart , a kind of bow shaped thing . |
| 3 | Erm did you used to have new clothes ever ? |
| 4 | Yeah it is now , yeah they used to have private caterers at one time but I believe it 's , it 's part of the club now and the profit making concern . |
| 5 | And the surround used to have nice fancy work round you know to make it so it would n't stand on the table cos me mother bought one of those because it used to be a bit dangerous on the table if you knocked it you see and |
| 6 | ‘ You used to have nice legs , Maisie , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We used to have super parties there . ’ |
| 8 | Benson and Hedges used to have similar problems with Wembley , in that reports of the tournament in America and Australia , for instance , inadvertently gave credit to their rivals . |
| 9 | We used to have great times talking together . |
| 10 | ‘ We used to have great parties here before the war , ’ Tony said . |
| 11 | Moreover , as they used to have introductory arrangements with finance houses for customers who wanted credit before 1977 , it is probable that much of their lending will be not merely a potential new alternative to but an actual ( lower-cost ) replacement of HP . |
| 12 | We used to have long discussions and arguments about everything from radio-controlled models to religion , and from parapsychology to physics . |
| 13 | I can remember , we used to have like mints in a bowl , lovely mints did n't we and erm potat , and we used to have the mints just in the bowl and I remember boiled potatoes , you remember erm , you know like , when we , when we were coming like and I can see everything now and I can see me little bowl and everything |
| 14 | And er he was the choir master erm and he and he used to put us onto , we used to have various plays you know , erm maybe two a year or something like that . |
| 15 | I used to have odd problems creating graphs — I never could remember the optimum order to do them in . |
| 16 | ‘ We used to have Victorian chesterfields in here but they were so hard and uncomfortable , ’ explains Pauline . |
| 17 | Owen and I used to have regular pillow-fights . |
| 18 | Coatings used to have separate plants in each country , because local tariffs and duties made it too costly to import . |
| 19 | The cottagers of Pook 's Common used to have grazing rights but I 'm the only one to keep an animal now and I keep mine in a paddock belonging to Tom . |
| 20 | My Dad used to have custom-made guitars from some people in Tennessee , called the Gower brothers . |
| 21 | but , she never used to have short hair did she ? |
| 22 | " There 's quite a good wooden quay , and I should imagine the army used to have heavy stores sent by water sometimes — certainly in the earlier days of the training establishment , before the motor lorry was as big as it is now . |
| 23 | In the old days factories used to have huge coal heaps outside in their yards . |
| 24 | Also from a very early age I used to have erotic fantasies about ships in storms or ships sinking . |
| 25 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 26 | They used to have big windows , but they used to a all be them there little tiny ones like that . |
| 27 | They used to have big chains right round , fore and aft to keep them together . |
| 28 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 29 | In the old days they used to have little houses close together called begins with T |
| 30 | A water fountain and it used to have little cups all the way round as you could go and have a drink . |