Example sentences of "they used have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was in the tennis club when I was a er they used to have a tennis court at the back . |
| 2 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 3 | They used to have a joinery class there . |
| 4 | Yeah and they used to have a man dressed up as Charlie Chaplin and he used to do his antics on the pitch before the players came out yeah . |
| 5 | If you did it years ago they used to have a man in the lounge , only in the lounge |
| 6 | They used to have a bundle with them on their shoulders , and a bundle in their oxters . " |
| 7 | They used to have a rest , you see . |
| 8 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 9 | ‘ They used to have a prize herd , ’ Albert said . |
| 10 | even have a dog any more , but they used to have a dog , and of course |
| 11 | and on the corner here is this road , where you go park road there , they used to have a place where they killed pigs and made black puddings in the middle of main street |
| 12 | And they used t they used to have a little , they used to have a railway from the sewer outfall , a little one , narrow one , there used to be , as I say used to have a machine up the top of the hill and they used to pull one down and one up . |
| 13 | Erm Yeah they used to have a lot of trouble in submarines and things as they had problems with their batteries flooding and then they start to electrolyzing the sodium chloride , the salt the sea water , and getting chlorine given off . |
| 14 | Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas |
| 15 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 16 | He was another character er there was er I remember they used to have a lot of socials and things at the church you know , it was very well attended I suppose in those days . |
| 17 | And in fact the bigger farms than ours , they used to have a circle of stones . |
| 18 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 19 | Oh well they used to have a list of places . |
| 20 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 21 | And at the end they used to have a jingle : |