Example sentences of "used [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to like to striptease in public . |
| 2 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 3 | This table lamp used to sit on Maxwell 's desk … the microphones … according to Sothebys were part of an intercom system and had nothing to do with secretly recording conversations . |
| 4 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 5 | As a youth , the Reverend A. Hunt Cooke used to sit behind Chapman and his family most Sunday mornings at St Mary 's Church , Hendon . |
| 6 | I forget what they call the men but the men used to sit in groups , I can see them now siting in groups . |
| 7 | I , I mean I used to go to London to buy things erm and you have oh they are even in England . |
| 8 | Er and I used to go to night school to learn , er National Council of Labour Colleges , to learn economics . |
| 9 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 10 | Did you used to go to church |
| 11 | Oh yes I used to g I used to go to church regularly every Sunday . |
| 12 | When I was in Holloway I used to go to education but that was just to get out of my cell . |
| 13 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 14 | He used to go to school erm Mr , I think that was the headmaster same sort of name . |
| 15 | When we used to go to school in the morning I used to have to lift the bonnet up to see if she |
| 16 | My erm my dad 's mum , they used to go to school Monday , Tuesday Wednesday morning , have Wednesday afternoon off , all day Thursday , all day Friday and Saturday morning ! |
| 17 | You know , and I mean where he used to go to school they did n't teach them them till they were ten ! |
| 18 | Andy who I used to go to school with . |
| 19 | I used to , I used to go to school gate , me mum used to hang it through |
| 20 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 21 | We used to go to bed earlier the day before , not so much to please mother as to bring to-morrow a bit sooner . |
| 22 | he , er , he , when he went , when he first come there , he used to go to bed seven o'clock |
| 23 | Yes , cos I always used to go to bed a lot earlier than you guys . |
| 24 | Used to go to Liverpool I think . |
| 25 | Oh blimey we used to go to Chelsea and buy them |
| 26 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 27 | It was Prohibition times so I used to go to speakeasies . |
| 28 | Aye , we 've done all sorts of things , there was er I used to go to chapel as well I I we were we were compelled to go to chapel . |
| 29 | When we used to go , we used to go to Nicks together ? |
| 30 | He goes to a school in the Tene Valley , it 's a teacher that , he used to go to Exeter school and the teacher 's opened her own school and , only for lo a small time and then she 's opening up actually in Exeter but this is an in between and she 's a very good teacher ! |