Example sentences of "used go [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We … we used to go on rambling weekends , with a group of ramblers . |
| 2 | Er oh I did have one Polish lad who 's now left who used to go round looking for all the cans and he 'd then collect the ten p's ! |
| 3 | I always used to go round mouthing to everyone : ‘ Who are you looking at , you white bitch and you black cow ’ and things like that . |
| 4 | When she was a teenager she used to go round wearing a blanket with a hole cut in it for her head . |
| 5 | Times she used to go really hate it . |
| 6 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 7 | Well well er Jimmy you know used to go down to learn to read the music . |
| 8 | I remember that whenever I had tuppence to spend I used to go there to buy one of the outdated paperbacks from the ‘ Popular Sports Library ’ on sale at half-price . |
| 9 | I did just at first , because I missed my Mum , so I used to go back to visit her . |
| 10 | Day in and day out , today they can Same with old mowing machines , they used to go out To open a field up in those days , they used to have to go round with a scythe . |
| 11 | Er then of course er petrol , before that I was in the , before I started the work we used to go out delivering petrol and petrol was all done in tins , two gallon tins . |
| 12 | When we were six to two on evening patrol , to be truthful , we used to go out looking for drunk and disorderlies — just to stop the bloody boredom . |
| 13 | And when I started children I used to go out scrubbing , and cleaning . |
| 14 | W oh we used to we used to go out gather firewood and we used |
| 15 | That illegal payments to players in the top clubs was widespread and continued throughout the period of the maximum wage emerged from evidence of overpayment by Sunderland in the 1950s submitted anonymously to discredit the chairman , Bill Ditchburn , a wealthy local business man , who used to go out to buy fish and chips in his pink-and-mauve Rolls-Royce . |
| 16 | While I 'm digging that garden she used to go out roll in the trench what I 'd dug and soon as I went in for a drink she was in there before me ! |
| 17 | You used to go in to play snooker did n't you ? |