Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , excitedly , ‘ right back before all this , right back when we used to live in the old hole , I used to sit out at nights and watch the moon . |
| 2 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 3 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 4 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
| 5 | And she used to come round at night and collect this stuff . |
| 6 | Also , I lost the green tape that went round the edge so the ball used to shoot off at speed . |
| 7 | We used to walk through at back of that chapel right across Neddy 's fields , right up through Wood . |
| 8 | Like every other band , The Smiths used to queue up at Factory , eagerly awaiting their videos off the Haçienda video production line . |
| 9 | Indeed , he used to queue up at Colnaghi in Bond Street for them , this one after Constable , that one after Boudin . |
| 10 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 11 | You had to run when we got there we had n't got any equipment you know , so we used to get out at night , if you had n't got your ga bandolier on you got pulled up , the red caps pulled you up , wanted to know what was the matter with you . |
| 12 | And I think the stations used to close down at night , like on Sunday evening . |