Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every poor person in England used to wash that way until not so very long ago . |
| 2 | But your brother Albie used to use that pub . ’ |
| 3 | Benny and Eve used to tell each other in fits of laughter that he spent hours in his little room above the shop pressing all his ambitions into the suit with a damp cloth . |
| 4 | The Shah used to dress that syllable , ANtellectuel " , when referring to anyone with education who was thought not to embrace everything the Pahlavis embodied . |
| 5 | I , no , that was , that was where where erm cos it is a , it was a chapel but erm that 's where old Chaucer used to keep all poetry and in his collection like he had erm cold water he said used to keep that by his side , by his bed |
| 6 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 7 | ‘ BR used to organise these type of specials themselves but when they stopped doing them we thought we would step in , ’ added one of the organisers , Lancaster Railman Nigel Bryer . |
| 8 | Sammy used to call those engine fires instead of fire engines ! |
| 9 | To this day I was never sure whether Bill used to do these kind of things accidentally or on purpose . ‘ |
| 10 | Mark used to do that man , Mark used to shave his eyebrows like here o on top and on , on the sides . |