Example sentences of "they used [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 2 | My mother was wild at the time , but that was mostly because when Denise 's family came to tea they used to lick the neck of the salad cream bottle . ’ |
| 3 | Despite professional emphasis on treating each case on its individual merits , consistent similarities were found between social workers from different regions in the criteria they used to assess the likelihood of further sexual abuse . |
| 4 | And er they used to get them to take these pills they said and they used to drink a bottle of gin , keep drinking gin . |
| 5 | They used to drink a lot of beer in groups which I did n't like myself . |
| 6 | They had an in , an in and out shop of where they used to recondition the engines er and er I that 's about all er . |
| 7 | Yes , yes , yeah , but they did have civilians working there but I do n't know where they used to ferry the bombs out to but I do believe they used to carry detonators and everything down there you know . |
| 8 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 9 | Cos if it was slack or anything they they used to stop the bachelors first you know . |
| 10 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 11 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 12 | And they used to heap the glasses . |
| 13 | And they used to take the gin and these pills and you know . |
| 14 | Er yes a lot of folk went out that way with their ponies er in fact that 's how they used to take the men when any Glen Shee person died in Glen Ayloch they took them out that way to the kirk here in Glen Shee kirk . |
| 15 | They used to take the what they called the rakings , the spare after they carried the sheaves in . |
| 16 | They used to take the hooks off the wagon you see , there were two hooks , one each end of the the wagons that they used on the incline . |
| 17 | Then they used to take the others back and put them in the yard again . |
| 18 | ‘ They used to take an interest in the way they made corn-stacks in the old days . |
| 19 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 20 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 21 | Da tells me they used to do a decent lunch at the chop-house by Holborn Viaduct . ’ |
| 22 | They used to do a lot of these er mosquito nets . |
| 23 | Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball . |
| 24 | You know how they used to do a lot of weaving , they do n't do so much now . |
| 25 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |
| 26 | the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands |
| 27 | In in in my own family my mum and my aunt went into service you know when they were about thirteen and they used to do the most abysmal jobs for next to nothing . |
| 28 | And they used to , not make anything , but they used to do the labouring , movement of work and all like that . |
| 29 | Er and they used to do the same to ours . |
| 30 | It was next , it was next to H & T Hornes and erm I , I think they used to do the casting there and then all the castings had to come into , for us to file and it was hard work but er there was erm a big bell to tell us when to stop work and that was outside and there was a big notice in the department , wait for the bell or |