Example sentences of "[pron] used to go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But I oh I used to go to the country dancing . |
2 | And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early . |
3 | Swimming club , I used to go to the swimming club . |
4 | ‘ I used to go to the printers in Kettering on press day and think up captions , sometimes six or seven for each photograph . |
5 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
6 | And then when I got er old enough I used to go in the gang like the men , and er get the same and piece work we were working loading the ships . |
7 | When I was , I used to go in the slaughterhouse with him when I was about nine yeah . |
8 | I used to go in the dark . |
9 | I never used to go in the shops , I used to go in the banks . |
10 | There was one lady called ‘ Toss-Off Kate ’ who used to go round the audience and sit beside various isolated gentlemen and ask them if they wanted to be serviced . |
11 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
12 | She used to go to the butchers and get breast of lamb , scrag-end , sheep 's head , pig 's head . |
13 | You used to go with the boss . |
14 | It had three big windows with iron doors and white walls and you used to go into the house up a flight of steps because there were shops underneath . |
15 | You used to go in the fields and turn it and when it had been turned they used to start leading . |
16 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
17 | oh we used to have , when we used to go on the strawberry field |
18 | Oh we used to go on the works trips , aha , we used to go to Rothesay |
19 | we used to go on the commons |
20 | 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 . |
21 | And we used to go to the cathedral |
22 | I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator . |
23 | ‘ Every summer we used to go to the seaside in Croatia , and I built sandcastles with the other children . |
24 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
25 | Oh yes we used to go to the Design Centre , yes |
26 | Oh yes we used to go to the Design Centre at Haymarket er and erm , see what they had and see what was going , yes |
27 | 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 ? |
28 | ‘ We used to go to The Mayfair and Oxford Galleries in Newcastle and The Brighton in Gateshead , ’ recalls Muriel , now ‘ fiftysomething ’ . |
29 | We used to go through the ritual of taking people off beta blockers , performing exercise tests , returning them to beta blockade and repeating the test . |
30 | So er we used to go through the motions and er after about er three weeks I think it was , no , yeah , two or three weeks anyway . |