Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The God of my far-off country must remember that I used to pray four times a day and still love me . |
| 2 | When my mum started training to become a probation officer , I used to spend two hours alone after school . |
| 3 | I used to leave two pints or three pints there depending what they wanted . |
| 4 | every so often , they 've got these little card things well they shove them in and it clicks all these numbers up so I used to buy one token |
| 5 | I used to I used to pay fifteen quid for the years ago to rent the set |
| 6 | I used to work four nights and er working all day in the shop , working all night in there . |
| 7 | I used to work seven days ' a week and I , I used to play football . |
| 8 | Er when I was s I used to get eight shilling at one time Unemployment Benefit . |
| 9 | And help with the lorry business and er I used to get three pound a week out of it . |
| 10 | In the past , habit is expressed by used to or , when a number of habits are referred to , would may be used : I used to walk three miles to school ( every morning ) when I was a child ; He would wake up at about 6.30 . |
| 11 | well I did n't used to , I used to have one A at the beginning but of course , it was impractical because the there were n't enough booklets to go round . |
| 12 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
| 13 | ‘ It started at sixpence , if you remember , but now things have got so out of hand I thought you ought to have five peas . ’ |
| 14 | Five laps for each of the normal races and four for the Classics was something like starvation diet for a club who used to hold 10 lappers every year at this meeting . |
| 15 | The Irish farmer 's son has spent six years as private trainer to wealthy businessman Geoff Hubbard , 74 , who used to own 25 companies including an airline . |
| 16 | The father-of-three , who used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day , claims that Imperial Tobacco failed to provide health warnings when he began smoking 30 years ago . |
| 17 | So if you used to charge fifty P for programmes , consider , could you charge seventy five P ? |
| 18 | Used to , we used to put five foals in a a er , take them like two stalls , you take the middle stall out and the top box you used to get five foals in . |
| 19 | You used to get two shears underneath your arm like that , and they used to drop them down like that , across your knees and top them like that , see ? |
| 20 | You used to have two buck teeth but you have n't now . |
| 21 | W. S. When we were on nights , we used to give two hours free , seven to nine , with collecting boxes . |
| 22 | We used to kill three bullocks a week and about nine sheep , |
| 23 | Used to , we used to put five foals in a a er , take them like two stalls , you take the middle stall out and the top box you used to get five foals in . |
| 24 | And we used to do thirty-six holes a day ; caddie for one player in the morning and then pick up a fresh bag for the afternoon . |
| 25 | We used to work eight hour shifts — morning , evening and night — and of these the night duties were at the same time the most boring and the most exciting , depending on whether there was anything ‘ on ’ . |
| 26 | The trend already has been remarkable : we used to have 140,000 village shops in the 1960s . |
| 27 | And we used to have one gentleman come in from the country . |
| 28 | See like erm l l l lorries and all like that , caravans , I mean I , caravans , we used to load the small ones and er we used to have two bars go underneath with a bit of wood on top and we used to have one hand on one end while they cos that was a damn nuisance . |
| 29 | See like erm l l l lorries and all like that , caravans , I mean I , caravans , we used to load the small ones and er we used to have two bars go underneath with a bit of wood on top and we used to have one hand on one end while they cos that was a damn nuisance . |
| 30 | I I I 'll never forget I er I used to try er You see we used to have three sets of commissions . |