Example sentences of "[pers pn] used to have a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to have a little stick . |
| 2 | I used to have a little bit and I shall see the same with my little boys and girls |
| 3 | And you used to have a little ticket , with the days on , and they used to punch it with the old , you remember the old punching machines , do n't you ? |
| 4 | You used to have a little book and er the grocer would write it down what you 'd had in the book you see and then you had to pay for it on th at the weekend . |
| 5 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 6 | But erm we used to have a little shed , a little hut in the pit yard , where we used to go and pay our dues , every week |
| 7 | And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding . |
| 8 | and they used to have a little screw |
| 9 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 10 | Well they used to have a little rowing boat and come after it , he used to get one of the lads while they come ashore and got his dinner . |