Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 2 | Mm No that 's er making me jolly cross , not like myself I do n't do anything like , not as much as I used to do at the hall , I mean I used to do a lot as you know , but I , I know how much you have done , but nobody else knows |
| 3 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 4 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 5 | Which used to function at the Stow . |
| 6 | Asking for the bloke who used to live at the house . |
| 7 | There is a certain Asian anaesthetist who used to work at the City Hospital Maternity Unit . |
| 8 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |
| 9 | The automatic clothes dryer does not save a woman the four or five hours a week she used to spend at the clothes line , if , for instance , she runs her washing machine and dryer every day … |
| 10 | Georgia was looking at the bracelet the same way she used to look at the hill when she was five , she was in awe of it , it might be too strong for her . |
| 11 | Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices . |
| 12 | But when you used to look at the te , you know , the children 's television programmes , they 're |
| 13 | But I do believe that we should seriously look at getting say , internal usage bags for nutrients er bags for lime , anything that we have printed , we ought to look at the and say to Mike or get 'em printed or something . |
| 14 | ( It is not exactly the right answer because of the rough averaging procedure we used to arrive at the direct effects . ) |
| 15 | what we used to do at the gym ? |
| 16 | Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family . |
| 17 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 18 | But er they were always er well-remembered , and er w Spanish Civil War through , I suppose nowadays , you call them fringe newspapers , but there was this paper we used to get at the tim at the time It was n't the er Morning Star , or even it 's predecessor , erm but you got a paper and you sort of heard the other side . |
| 19 | Before people talk of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals , they ought to look at the map and understand what they are saying . |
| 20 | bottle and erm they used to queue at the table that for the |
| 21 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 22 | ‘ The night is his hour , that 's what they used to say at the fairground . |
| 23 | They , you see to , they used to have a , they used to camp at the very top of the hill up there . |
| 24 | They er they used to come at the first , and I 'll tell you this and I , it 's my opinion , they got one of their own men er I 'd foxed them off , you know what I mean , to do their own odd jobs . |
| 25 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 26 | Now after the er there was a incident at erm the er engine shed , er the stabling of the locomotive was transferred away , erm and it used to travel at the end of the day over to the er or , or er engine shed , where it er stayed for the stayed for the night . |
| 27 | The point of mentioning John is that he used to work at the massive Hoover plant in West London . |
| 28 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 29 | Mr Brown grew up in Darlington where his parents , Mr and Mrs Allan Brown , still live in Coatham Crescent , and in his youth he used to stand at a vantage point near the Whessoe Road/ Honeypot Lane junction to watch the rally cars speeding on their way , never dreaming that one day he would be among them . |
| 30 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |