Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the beginning of the '60s I lived in Ealing , and used to go to the Ealing Jazz Club when guys like Cyril Davis were playing . |
| 2 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 3 | ‘ We used to go to The Mayfair and Oxford Galleries in Newcastle and The Brighton in Gateshead , ’ recalls Muriel , now ‘ fiftysomething ’ . |
| 4 | Always used to go on a Sunday messing about |
| 5 | used to go on a Sunday say come on we 'll go and I used to my dinner , oh fucking hell my dinner this is desperate , them wee were gorgeous too . |
| 6 | He used to go on a Wednesday my father did , yeah . |
| 7 | And we used to go visiting , my Auntie Irene lived there and And we used to go on a Saturday night , I used to ooh and I 've told her , I used to tell I would n't live that , live up that lane rent free . |
| 8 | Often , too , we used to go on the ARP bus , a sort of fishing club for fire fighters in the Heeley Green area of Sheffield , run by local cutler George Sadler . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 11 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 12 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 13 | The Rangers midfield player , who used to stand on the Elland Road terraces , fears Howard Wilkinson 's champions could copy Arsenal by going into free-fall after crashing out of Europe . |
| 14 | i.e. the old Whitehall Palace in London , which used to stand beside the Thames , between the present Houses of Parliament and Charing Cross Bridge . |
| 15 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 16 | There were four headmasters and they From Not from Girran because there was only the one high school , but from er Prestwick , Glenbuck and that , and the used to meet on a Saturday at Turnbelly to play golf . |
| 17 | And the f the the younger apprentices used to plunk on a Monday afternoon and all go along to Street to the this and she says , You did n't need to buy sweeties it was the rails of the gallery were sticking with toffee . |
| 18 | Which used to function at the Stow . |
| 19 | I used to play for the Darlington Deanery Choir one afternoon a week . |
| 20 | Well as you know I was a shepherd and I used to look after the Chichester Estate and we used to have a lot of erm lot of erm sheep in those days . |
| 21 | Oh and our son used to help on a Friday from eleven o'clock |
| 22 | They used to come home , the sh the show used to shut on a Friday at half past five and they 'd come by train then , years ago , they used to be loaded in London , Liverpool Street or one of the stations there , come down to Soham and we used to , they used to arrive here about er twelve o'clock time in the morning . |
| 23 | I used to take them every day and I was like that right , and then what I used to do on a Sunday I would n't take one cos I used to think right I like my Sunday dinner and I will never give up my Sunday dinner when I 'm dieting right |
| 24 | Seven different mud systems have been used , with one common characteristic ; the mud system used to drill through the Zechstein evaporites has been kept to drill the Carboniferous reservoirs . |
| 25 | ‘ He used to be a very useful runner in his younger days , ’ Joe explained , ‘ used to run for the Gloucester Harriers so they say . |
| 26 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |
| 27 | That was when she used to live in the TASS building on Tverskoy Boulevard . |
| 28 | The huge structure used to hang underneath the Severn Bridge . |
| 29 | Legend has it that he used to angle in the Adige river and that when the waters flooded , many years after his death , they were stopped from breaching the walls of his church by prayers to his memory . |
| 30 | The sawdust we used to get from the Peasenhall works , Smyth 's the Suffolk drill-makers . ’ |