Example sentences of "used to go [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just worked it out , do you know that was handled five times , those beet , because Pam used to go up and loosen with the plough , and then we come behind and pull it . |
| 2 | That 's Mr Harry used to go up and help him . |
| 3 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 4 | Later , when he was in Wimbledon , I used to go round and drop some seeds on the ground and tell him they were pot . |
| 5 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 6 | yeah , and I used to go round and see our Trace every day , and she was still smoking |
| 7 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 8 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 9 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 10 | But th the thing was that there was a mess room outside the fitting shop actually , but there was n't much room there because er men from other jobs , er they p from outside , used to go there and eat . |
| 11 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 12 | And er he er we used to go there and play with , you know , three or four hours and keep him company , like . |
| 13 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 14 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 15 | ‘ I always tried very hard to provide a good service and I used to go out and speak to the passengers to make sure they were satisfied , ’ she said . |
| 16 | He , they used to go out and do all the outside work for him . |
| 17 | ‘ She never used to go out and get drunk like some of the others . ’ |
| 18 | My parents used to ignore me when I used to go home and tell them I 'd won a race . |
| 19 | Me mother used to go in and lie down when she 'd been to the work . |
| 20 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 21 | I used to go in and help them out at Christmas because they would be three may be four or five thousand turkeys right . |
| 22 | he 's retired now , yeah and sometimes well he used to go in and help Carl out at the Scottish Office when you were away producing your sprogs he edited |
| 23 | Mum and I used to go in and say why it looks alright and when we got outside |
| 24 | I mind of them when I was little , fine we used to go in and see them . |
| 25 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |