Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |
| 2 | I used to go down the villages . |
| 3 | Now the , round the backyard , used to go down the yard , and on the left hand side of the yard there was a , a , a , a toilet and a coal house . |
| 4 | when you , when you used to go down the beach and do fucking moonies with all the |
| 5 | It 's probably a similar situation at er , the last company I worked for , used to have me , me lunch hour , I used to go down the swimming baths and do two and half hours there . |
| 6 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 7 | Very , very high gear on it , we used to go out a couple of us |
| 8 | They said well er I thought perhaps he was away preaching , she says oh no they do n't want any of m our people used to go out a lot preaching , but they do n't want any of them now because it 's too deep for them |
| 9 | Asked why the interest in Elvis , Walken said that a girl he had a crush on in school used to carry round a picture of her boyfriend , and this was used as an excuse for why Walken could n't take her to his high school prom . |
| 10 | Where it is feasible to let students take it over , the camera is simply a tool used to carry out a task which students find engrossing , exciting and therefore highly motivating . |
| 11 | The passage and the cavern were formed where a stream of water used to flow along a bedding plane between layers of limestone . |
| 12 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 13 | They 've always been a precarious , yeah , I mean me dad used to work down the shipyard and you know you 'd live in fear for when they would close the yards down |
| 14 | He er , Hugh and I used to come up every day do what we could , you see , in those days if you had a stroke you had to lay there till you died . |
| 15 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 16 | They used to come out every summer to Southmoor , where I lived , to pick the hops and work on the local market garden and erm I agree with whoever said if you treat them right they 'll treat you right . |
| 17 | We 'll go out for a drive probably out an hour , whereas years ago the horse used to come out the stable at seven in the morning he would n't go back till probably five at night . |
| 18 | We did , we did the Merry Widow and we had , th the Gazettes they 're called , th the Gazettes and er they used to come out the wings with all this , you know ? |
| 19 | He said Munn drove his car during the robbery , provided one of the robbers with a sledge hammer , used to smash down the bank counter screens , and he also knew the other had an imitation gun . |
| 20 | I called him Peter , after his father , who used to tour around a bit and always came to see me when he was on his travels . |
| 21 | For a Royal tour she always used to pull out the stops and literally shop until she dropped for the occasion . |
| 22 | How we used to ferret out the info , gradually piecing together the clues . |
| 23 | The small amount of finance used to set up the company came from Garrett 's personal savings . |
| 24 | You may have noticed that the dialogue boxes used to set up the Program Groups and Program Item both have a Password option . |
| 25 | not so used now , though once used to cover up the flavour of unpleasant medicines |
| 26 | These were in turn used to gross up the export values declared by respondents to estimates of exports for all exporters in Scotland . |
| 27 | I used to walk around the place , thinking about it . |
| 28 | She felt a thousand miles away from the gentle professor , who used to cross out the expletives in Sheridan and even bowdlerized Macbeth . |
| 29 | We 'll tell you all , we used to look out the window and the boys would be playing football ! |
| 30 | ‘ The one who used to hollow out the inside of a baguette for breakfast , and fill it up with condensed milk , and lower it into his mouth like a sword-swallower ? ’ |