Example sentences of "used to do a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 2 | It helped when I used to do a bit of coal-bag carrying in my spare time to earn some pin money . |
| 3 | But he was reserved , and he used to do a lot of thinking , especially on the golf course where he used to keep himself to himself . |
| 4 | They used to call him ‘ Stan the Man ’ at Hartsbourne where he used to do a bit of spare-time caddying . |
| 5 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 6 | Uncle used to do a bit because he liked fiddling with machines , and the one we had in the early days was borrowed and not really suitable . |
| 7 | We used to do a lot of testing with Precisions but we found we just could n't hear the differences between different strings ; Music Mans seem to almost accentuate the differences , which is what we want . |
| 8 | In his satirical cabaret days , Nichols used to do a sketch with Elaine May about a Jewish mother 's shock at her son 's choice of profession : ‘ Can you imagine me saying , ‘ There goes my son the nurse ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 10 | I just used to do a bit of cottaging , picking people up , particularly during the war ; that was the heyday in picking people up so easily — in crowded trains , in the blackout — but it was always just the one-off . |
| 11 | During the war when I was evacuated , I used to do a paper round . |
| 12 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 13 | German-speakers used to do a lot of research there , but unfortunately , Hispanic studies have practically died out in this country . |
| 14 | Famous courtesans used to do a roaring trade in handkerchiefs scented with their secretions . |
| 15 | He used to do a show for me sometimes . |
| 16 | Da tells me they used to do a decent lunch at the chop-house by Holborn Viaduct . ’ |
| 17 | Mosquito net mending you know we used to do a lot in Nottingham . |
| 18 | They used to do a lot of these er mosquito nets . |
| 19 | Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball . |
| 20 | Not until er when was it , ooh , I think not until er me brother and I were married and her and me father were together and she used to do a bit of homework er making these er kind of leather bags , |
| 21 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 22 | You know how they used to do a lot of weaving , they do n't do so much now . |
| 23 | Yes , yes and you used to do a lot of sharing er one f u farms helping each other . |
| 24 | I used to do a lot of the cleaning myself . |
| 25 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 26 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 27 | The Mayor of Strasbourg , this man Dietrich , Baron , Dietrich , used to do a lot of entertaining , and very often erm , Rouget de Lisle would be invited to join the company . |
| 28 | She used to do a bit of part time buying from the accounts department . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember how ‘ Monsewer ’ Eddie Gray used to do a sketch about diving into a letterbox , while one of the funniest people was a taxi driver I knew who used to put a mask on and squirt people with a water pistol . |
| 30 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |