Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I I do you know I 've been back since but I just could n't find it now , but there it 'll be , but on the side of the er at , he used to preach at this mission , there was only him you know used to preach , and I do n't know how many other people were at , it would n't hold above er would n't hold above thirty . |
| 2 | They used to signal to each other when there was trouble about . ’ |
| 3 | Well I had one like that , you know when we used to go to that gym up in Chelsea ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But during the er strike he used to go out purposely to get them and he used to go onto these fields . |
| 8 | And erm some houses used to some houses used to go up some steps and two steps and The one where I used to be and you went you used to go up two steps . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 11 | Then the old old binder used to come in with two two year old stalwarts , horses , and he used to go round this field and it used to take him days . |
| 12 | It would work for national reconciliation " including those Cambodians who used to work with all categories of the Vietnamese aggressors " . |
| 13 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 14 | Her statue used to stand on that ledge of rock , just there above the spring . |
| 15 | They used to come without any warning whatsoever . |
| 16 | Aye , there was er a Billy , a Harry , and er there was another lot come , I c I just ca n't remember their name but after the First World War this Billy used to come round this part and collect cast horses . |
| 17 | we never used to come in this room you know , nobody would come in this room |
| 18 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 19 | A group of like-minded individuals used to meet at each other 's house on a Monday nearest the full moon . |
| 20 | And I used to listen to that kind of flattery which all too often can drag the most doughty warriors from their heights down to hell itself . |
| 21 | She was also the Stationmaster 's daughter , you see , and we used to talk to each other telephone you see and erm , well that 's as far as I 've got now . |
| 22 | There was one I used to pick in another field years ago , a purple flower with pretty leaves which sometimes turned all colours , but I never knew its name . |
| 23 | That is a throw-back to my days as a junior reporter when I used to play with another junior who worked on the rival weekly , the North Devon Journal Herald His name was David Vine , later to become the BBC 's commentator on snooker and winter sports . |
| 24 | And at dinnertime we used to look through this window and we could see all the lodging houses , and under the beds You could see them in bed . |
| 25 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |
| 26 | That 's what we used to do with these ships . |
| 27 | That 's another thing they used to do in those days they never do now , a lot of men when they bought a pair of boots , they had them what they called plumped . |
| 28 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | My grandchildren in America ask me about how much things used to cost in those days . |