Example sentences of "that used [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What became Genesis was a group of songwriters that used to gather around the piano . |
| 2 | They say that there are going to be dust clouds issuing from this site comparable to the dust clouds that used to issue from the P F A lagoons at Brotherton . |
| 3 | I remember we used to have an old Labrador cross that used to sleep under the kitchen table , till it finally gave up and died . |
| 4 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 5 | So if they were where the machine was planing or moulding or whatever , the material 'd be sucked away like ours is into bins and then that used to go with the material we used to get . |
| 6 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The Nadder seemed to carry much more water that used to go under the bridge at a fair old pace . |
| 8 | and I was saying that it 's a big boat that used to go across the world . |
| 9 | True , the black cows , apparently of no fixed abode , that used to saunter along the streets and back lanes , foraging and friendly , have gone , and Edmund MacKenzie has moved his shop to new premises , but otherwise Plockton today is as it has always been within my memory , and is best appreciated in the evenings when the day trippers have departed . |
| 10 | Together with a couple of swing boats , this was all that remained of the travelling showman 's fair that used to appear at the feast . |
| 11 | There used to be er , a lady that used to come in the cinema when I worked there , and she had a |
| 12 | For the first 10 years of the Government , the cry that used to come from the Dispatch Box was that the economy was in a mess because of strikes by workers . |