Example sentences of "used to have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know we used to have a real laugh , because you ever remember the time that erm |
| 2 | used to have a black rubber tyre round my middle |
| 3 | And she used to have a blonde streak in her hair . |
| 4 | They used to have a profitable business rearing surplus Friesian heifer calves for sale in-calf. but since TB was found in their herd in January 1986 they have had two periods at Whalley Farm , Whittington , near Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , when they were not allowed to move cattle off the farm , except for immediate slaughter . |
| 5 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 6 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 7 | ‘ One woman told me she used to have a great view from her window across a local park . |
| 8 | Now that George used to have a bloody motorbike and a sidecar . |
| 9 | And of course , on the shooting , they used to have a good feed of you know in the mansion in the cellar . |
| 10 | I mean I used to have a good go at keeping up your standard in my but er |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 12 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 13 | ‘ In the early days everyone used to have a good time for real . |
| 14 | This came from Morton 's Italian subsidiary and used to have a good market in Eastern Europe , though this has recently collapsed , and is widely used in sport shops and luggage , being washable and breathable — and cheaper than real leather . |
| 15 | Never went hungry , no my mother always have a good , always used to have a good table , very good , we were a very lucky family , anybody used to come in our house on a weekend they always thought there was a party every weekend . |
| 16 | In East German they are now drowning in rubbish because they used to have a perfect recycling scheme everything was collected and recycled cos they just did n't have the materials . |
| 17 | And he used to have a small stand on it do you see , to hold the barrel , and then he could manoeuvre around just like a machine gun . |
| 18 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 19 | And he used to have a small piece of stick with a on the end of it , cut from er a tree or a bush . |
| 20 | I used to have a severe temper with violent outbursts and I ended up killing someone and I never wanted to kill again . |
| 21 | And they said he never said much to them , well he perhaps did n't , he would n't do because he was like that you see , but pra before interviewing him on television , er of course the War came and India was given freedom , and er there used to be you know the Sweet people who used to have a big factory on Road , was a very famous sweet in them days , I do n't think they are now , but was a very good sweet firm , and they 'd got a daughter cos she was in the , during the War the Anglo-Soviet Friendship er she was one of the course they 'd got hundreds but she was one . |
| 22 | I know , but years ago you always used to have a big tea and supper |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 25 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |
| 26 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 27 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 28 | Yeah he used to have a whole loaf on a Saturday . |
| 29 | I used to have a special gimmick — when I used to do my clog dance , I used to shout to the audience , ‘ Throw pennies , ’ and that 's what they used to do . |
| 30 | So if we want to find out , and twenty five over a hundred , we 've got the s , it 's a special fraction , and it used to have a special name for it , and we call these percentages , twenty five per hundred , twenty five hundredths , we just say twenty five per cent . |