Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [prep] these [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard about that : when I was just twenty and used to go to these pubs — The Dog and so on — the boys there would talk about a settin' in . |
| 2 | I used to go to these houses with all the other kids , and you could hear the parents , someone would say , but he 's not very like his father , and then they 'd all explain in voices you could hear a mile away , and I would get funny looks from all the rest . |
| 3 | And he used to go to these houses Dunoon and them and er all the way down and around the promenade around the south parade and er and he used to go these houses with all these and then there were some er black and white minstrels in the valley . |
| 4 | But during the er strike he used to go out purposely to get them and he used to go onto these fields . |
| 5 | I used to go on these escapades with a mate of mine who 's now a milkman , and we 'd go to Soho , and I remember walking along Wardour Street and hearing this music coming out the basement . |
| 6 | That 's what we used to do with these ships . |
| 7 | Erm when I say parties that 's probably not the right word because erm party indicates sort of food and games , we had concerts and we used to put on these concerts , the pupils used to put them on ourselves and our parents were invited to come and watch these concerts . |
| 8 | And the race that used to live in these parts had strange notions . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I did say they used to live in these parts . ’ |
| 10 | Remember they used to used they used to get these , the farmers used to ask for these boxes because they made er hen 's nests , you know that type you know where they Oh they were good boxes . |