Example sentences of "used [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , I used to sit all huddled-up and think : ‘ I just ca n't bear it . ’ ’ |
| 2 | They used to go all the way out to these erm Searchlight Stations and erm they used to , very often they , they were situated in a , in a sort of pit in a dug out and erm when they arrived of course er the Education Officer had forgotten to tell the , the troops that there was a lecture that they were supposed to attend and er nobody turned up . |
| 3 | There was two of them and they used to go all day at the quarry for to get bring the slates down to . |
| 4 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 5 | No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing . |
| 6 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
| 7 | Buckets , well every night time , when we finished dredging , you had to wash down , wash the decks down cos I mean that the decks used to be covered in mud and slush , so all we had then was an old draw bucket on a bit of rope , over the side , there were n't no hoses then , we used to the bucket and then we used to swing all the mud back in there , in the river . |
| 8 | And she used to do Helen and Susan 's , she used to sew all the edges up and everything . |
| 9 | And I used to go down you used to see all the mams and kids going down the moors here , taking their dad 's tea , down in the fields , so they could have a bit of something and then finish as got dark . |
| 10 | You used to see all the scratchings and all stu steaming hot , with the black puddings and the plonney shining like silver sixpences . |
| 11 | And who used to work all this out , your father ? |
| 12 | ‘ I was fifty-three when I used to meet all those wonderful girls striding down the King 's Road , blonde hair flying , boots like little musketeers . |
| 13 | I used to crave all sweet foods badly , and alcohol as well . |
| 14 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 15 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 16 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 17 | So you used to dredge all that length right the way down |
| 18 | Kylie said : ‘ I used to design all my own clothes when I was younger , when I was 15 , 16 . |
| 19 | He used to clean all our shoes and put them along the floor . |
| 20 | John runs the transport department with the help of his assistant Angela Pelling [ she of the friendly voice who used to answer all calls on the Felcourt switchboard ] . |
| 21 | Wellingtons and shorts , and we used to pour all this molasses and then tread it in , and we 'd go on treading it in until the next load came in , see , we could go on like this all day . |
| 22 | We used to serve all those houses down the bottom there , round there . |
| 23 | I was too young to know anything of sexual images , but I used to imagine all the local ladies tied to trees . ’ |
| 24 | yeah , but we used to buy all our wallpaper |
| 25 | and er he used to , he had a contract with some big potato firm and he used to buy all the , the fertilizer bags in the locality and he used to bring them there to the end of the road and he used to wash them in the burn . |
| 26 | His wife used to handle all the recruiting , but then she ran off with someone . |
| 27 | Then I have my Flying V which I used to play all the time . |
| 28 | We and we had some marvellous Christmas parties because we used to play all sorts of games . |
| 29 | But it was mainly on the beach we used to play all the time . |
| 30 | Ooh they used to play all the |