Example sentences of "used to go [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and an aunt , just outside Norwich we used to go up for Sunday dinner it was very nice along the river there , and a , I thought the very nice part of cathedral , there 's a cathedral lies very low it had some very nice erm , mm , what you call it , close , is it ? |
| 2 | Another thing er While on union business er I used to go up on negotiations , you see ? |
| 3 | Well we were n't in and Dempsey always used to go up to Jane , right ? |
| 4 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 5 | Before that , he used to go up to London and try to visit her . ’ |
| 6 | We used to go once a month you know when the girls were in the Guides , used to go for their parade service and if you were at Auckley , Malcolm and I used to go up with Heidi did n't I ? |
| 7 | the prize money down , and there were a trip planned , you 'd to go from Queensbury and you used to go through to Blackpool |
| 8 | The place was a bit religious but they did n't kind of drum it into you , they used to go on about church a bit . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you interested in the actual fishing that used to go on from Lowestoft ? |
| 10 | The things that used to go on in Newmarket . |
| 11 | Hours in the swamp and when they were going all thick and heavy there , he used to go round about October , just for that one day , and shoot as much as he could , and bring them into the mansion . |
| 12 | Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces . |
| 13 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 14 | He used to go down to Cardiff from London for big games , rarely missing an International unless someone like Hamlet intervened . |
| 15 | When we were at the flat er I 'm not quite sure , I think the one was a Tuesday and the other was a Sunday , when there was a bus used to go down to Tenby |
| 16 | But he used to go down to Pearson 's house in Beckenham , Kent and spend time with his children , Simon and Patrick . |
| 17 | Erm used to go down to weddings , at the register office on a Saturday morning , and hope that they 'd turn up without witnesses , because then you had to be compensated , , for giving your service . |
| 18 | The three of us used to go down in summer to stay and do the haymaking . |
| 19 | The boats that used to go back to Scotland were all laden : pianos , bedsteads , anything they could get . |
| 20 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |
| 21 | Saturday night you used to go out with Ben , Ben and |
| 22 | Is that about the bloke that used to go out with Joan Collins ? ’ |
| 23 | He used to go out with Wendy 's Auntie June . |
| 24 | ‘ You used to go out with Jim Scott , did n't you ? ’ |
| 25 | The one who used to go out with Barry . |
| 26 | Did you know Tamsin used to go out with Jonathan ? |
| 27 | He used to go out with Lucinda . |
| 28 | Then Elaine said , ‘ Do you remember we used to go out with Mama and buy Father 's cigars , and then go out with Father — he would take us into Newcastle and we would get Mama 's perfume . |
| 29 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 30 | ‘ I used to go out on Sundays in London , sometimes to a brasserie in Covent Garden or to an ‘ olde Englishe ’ pub , and I 'd forgotten just how pleasant a long lunch can be . ’ |