Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see the cage used to go down to that and it used to you see ? the f the four for you to get off you see ? |
| 2 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 3 | and it is the er it 's called Coach Road because that is the road that the coaches used to go along to Totnes |
| 4 | He told how she and Garry used to call round to his house ever Sunday for lunch . |
| 5 | His friends used to come round to our house and call for him , but Paul just ignored them , ’ said his mother . |
| 6 | ‘ A ’ and the other girls used to come round to the house asking me to do their hair or their eyebrows . |
| 7 | In the old days , before the advent of Mr Cook 's steamers , when tourists used to sail down to Luxor by dahabeeyah , the port had been full of the old-fashioned , native sailing craft . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |