Example sentences of "[noun pl] used [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps we are reaching for object-oriented technology as our great-grandparents used to reach for the ‘ cure-all ’ medicines sold by the travelling salesmen of the 19th century . |
| 3 | Throckmorton and several other conservative country gentlemen used to meet in the Queen 's Head Tavern in Fleet Street to discuss parliamentary affairs , and they probably formed the nearest thing the Reformation Parliament saw to an opposition group . |
| 4 | He next turned his attention to curare , which South American Indians used to apply to the tips of their arrows to induce paralysis in their foes . |
| 5 | To investigate system development teams as social units and to provide a re-appraisal of the predominant organisational models used to account for the management of system development teams . |
| 6 | The air crews used to flock around the office even more now that she was with us , and in particular a navigator called Henry who made numerous attempts to date her . |
| 7 | Lampi used to jam in the Californian Bay Area with that great Windham Hill guitarist Michael Hedges . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 10 | The local bands used to play for the morning processions , in the afternoon they played selections at the sports and in the evening they would compete among themselves . |
| 11 | How would these damaged planes used to arrive at the airport ? |
| 12 | He will be aware that only the most diligent of hon. Members and outside organisations used to go to the Table Office or the Library to get those replies . |
| 13 | Sweeney points to the stressful nature of the job : ‘ Prison officers used to join from the Forces , ’ he says . |
| 14 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 15 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 16 | Among their feudal ancestors however the long time during which estates used to continue in the same family sufficiently demonstrated the general disposition of people to live within their income . |
| 17 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |
| 18 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 19 | Arrangements ( b ) and ( c ) show the unison of two horns used to balance with the trombones . |
| 20 | I was breastfeeding and the bloke screws used to walk in the room . |
| 21 | There are four principal theories used to account for the failure of the extreme right in Britain . |
| 22 | Some of the traditional theories used to account for the failure of the extreme right in Great Britain do have something to say about the reasons for this . |
| 23 | One of the processes used to print on the straps is called ‘ hot foil ’ printing . |
| 24 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 25 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 26 | The girls used to join in the in the party afterwards , you know ? |
| 27 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 28 | At the time she had Ford Fiesta van , a blue van , which was alright , first time started , about four , four years old , five years old , good little road condition , but the children used to get in the back and as she went round bends it was like ten-pin bowling , dum , dum , dum , dum , went round another bit , dum , dum , dum , dum . |
| 29 | and er the children used to play on the banks of the Nile early in the morning when they got up , there was all sand there . |
| 30 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |