Example sentences of "used go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nadder seemed to carry much more water that used to go under the bridge at a fair old pace . |
| 2 | The engagements used to go to the artists who brought them back the best presents from their tours abroad . |
| 3 | For the Opens he used to go to the course a week or so in advance and play on his own . |
| 4 | I used to go to the Botanical Gardens and sit in the sun , or wander round the aviaries admiring the birds of magnificent plumage . |
| 5 | ‘ At the beginning of the '60s I lived in Ealing , and used to go to the Ealing Jazz Club when guys like Cyril Davis were playing . |
| 6 | ‘ Every summer we used to go to the seaside in Croatia , and I built sandcastles with the other children . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to go to the printers in Kettering on press day and think up captions , sometimes six or seven for each photograph . |
| 8 | Charles and James used to go to the national conferences and there meet other like-minded ‘ wets ’ concerned about the right-wing drift to Thatcherism . |
| 9 | When he was in work , and then sh we used to go to the local butcher 's shop on a Saturday night , with the old bag , six o'clock Saturday night to Mr 's . |
| 10 | She used to go to the butchers and get breast of lamb , scrag-end , sheep 's head , pig 's head . |
| 11 | And I used to go to the Methodist Chapel that was opposite the school , there . |
| 12 | I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator . |
| 13 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 14 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 15 | After school , I used to go to the familiar places in the forest of my village . |
| 16 | On Sunday afternoons , because our parents would not let us go out unaccompanied in the evenings , we used to go to the local cinema , which was also the theatre . |
| 17 | Swimming club , I used to go to the swimming club . |
| 18 | Well he , he , he used to go to er used to go to the British Legion , every Sunday morning . |
| 19 | Er everybody or nearly everybody used to go to the pawnshop . |
| 20 | And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early . |
| 21 | this and that then the old women used to go to the door , shilling . |
| 22 | And they used to go and er th odd ones er and they used to go to the houses in the street , there were a chap er down th er that street opposite the er er the every morning . |
| 23 | And then er oh I often used to go to the pier concerts you know , Sunday night , Saturday night and Sunday night because they tiptop musical concerts . |
| 24 | He will be aware that only the most diligent of hon. Members and outside organisations used to go to the Table Office or the Library to get those replies . |
| 25 | No they used to go to the . |
| 26 | Well to jump on the bandwagon I used to go to the same school as Batts and although he 's a couple of years older than I am one of my friends sisters used to beat him up . |
| 27 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 28 | Oh yes we used to go to the Design Centre , yes |
| 29 | Oh yes we used to go to the Design Centre at Haymarket er and erm , see what they had and see what was going , yes |
| 30 | ‘ We used to go to The Mayfair and Oxford Galleries in Newcastle and The Brighton in Gateshead , ’ recalls Muriel , now ‘ fiftysomething ’ . |