Example sentences of "they used [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them used to walk round with me up at the market pointing out his bullocks : ‘ These four belong to the policeman ; these four I bought off the publican ; these belong to the baker . ’ |
| 2 | In fact they pay for the sort of thing they used to skive out of when they were at school . ’ |
| 3 | They used to walk the twelve miles Stowmarket to Ipswich , they used to go to the police station after five o'clock , and they used to get a ticket , which they used to take up to the casual ward . |
| 4 | And then they used to go around on a Sunday morning from farm to farm to see how the other chaps are getting on and to say how much better their horses looked . |
| 5 | At first my mam and dad were n't pleased about me falling pregnant , and they used to go on about how was I going to manage . |
| 6 | The place was a bit religious but they did n't kind of drum it into you , they used to go on about church a bit . |
| 7 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 8 | And they used to go through about oh I should say about erm carts then you see , horse and carts . |
| 9 | They used to go down to the clogger 's shop , which was at the bottom of the road where they lived , and he used to make toast , make a drink , and they used to sit round by the light of a candle , eating toast and drinking . |
| 10 | and they used to go out to these units and take slides and er lecture to the , to the men about birds and er natural history and Mr himself he , he was famous for three different lectures that he used to offer . |
| 11 | They used to go out in the morning to these houses , then they 'd give a performance on the sands . |
| 12 | How 're yuh gon na keep'em down on the farm , after they 've seen Paree , they used to sing back in the 1920s . |
| 13 | They used to go down to the clogger 's shop , which was at the bottom of the road where they lived , and he used to make toast , make a drink , and they used to sit round by the light of a candle , eating toast and drinking . |
| 14 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 15 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 16 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 17 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 18 | They used to pop up in the morning when it was a bit cooler and damper and then flatten out in the afternoon when the temperature got up . |
| 19 | It 's like something out of that rubbish they used to put on after Grandstand . ’ |
| 20 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 21 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |
| 22 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 23 | They used to come up with the dredging spoil |
| 24 | And they used to come up to the maintenance workshop |
| 25 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 26 | Instead of having they had to come through the Dock Commission all of the men , they wanted so and so men for that boat , they used to come through to me . |
| 27 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 28 | No , we bought them all secondhand well they used to come round with this , not secondhand stuff but all new stuff and he used to go round the dock selling different er water boot socks and sweaters and he dealer . |
| 29 | They used to come round with cheap stuff , getting rid of their rubbish . |
| 30 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |