Example sentences of "used do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Famous courtesans used to do a roaring trade in handkerchiefs scented with their secretions . |
| 2 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 3 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 4 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 5 | Da tells me they used to do a decent lunch at the chop-house by Holborn Viaduct . ’ |
| 6 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 10 | I mean we used to do the annual report because the R C E had to provide something to the General Manager |
| 11 | We used to do the live show that was never broadcast — it was just the bit after all the other stars have been on stage and mimed to their records for the audience . |
| 12 | You used to do the old brisket , in the saucepans , along with the potherbs and so forth . |
| 13 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 14 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 15 | But in a stage of my life I used to do the same thing a lot . |
| 16 | Er and they used to do the same to ours . |
| 17 | ‘ Michael used to do the same , ’ said Holdfast . |
| 18 | He used to do the same everyone else ! |
| 19 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 20 | ‘ We used to do the special classes , gardening and things like that . |
| 21 | A certain firm famous for their ‘ bags ’ trouser suits , used to do an extensive line of grey anoraks , but they obviously had a visit from the style police and were made to put bits of navy blue and red in them or face a lengthy jail sentence . |
| 22 | There were brilliant sessions all the time , on buses and at airports — we used to do an awful lot of hanging around at airports and we used to end up having great crack , even doing session on airplanes . ’ |