Example sentences of "we used [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to use all sorts of things . |
| 2 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 3 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 4 | And then we used to put these loops the through the loops and tie their legs to the string . |
| 5 | We used to put these herren up for red-herren during the winter , and we 'd probably put three lots or consignments . |
| 6 | And then we used to put some coops there and small runs for them and we used to carry them there , every night because they settled down better in the night than in the daytime . |
| 7 | We had a little garden in the front and we used to put er a in in in the in in on the soil and we used to put some crumbs on on a on a plate you know . |
| 8 | And erm we used to kick this tin down the hill and er as I say it would roll down and we would all go and hide anywhere , back garden , front garden , over a wall , round a corner , anywhere like that you see . |
| 9 | Sir , we used to joke that truth is always stranger than fiction . |
| 10 | We used t er we used whistle , we used to blow this whistle and tell him what material we wanted , do you see ? |
| 11 | Yeah , what we call a new cut , we dredge right opposite the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all and we used to do that tide time , had to work at ti tides , when it 's high tide , cos that otherwise there were n't any water there at all . |
| 12 | ‘ We used to do that sort of thing in Paris . |
| 13 | We used to do that Saturdays , then Mondays I used to , well we used to have the clients come . |
| 14 | We used to do any typing that was needed for the Aurae Phiala publications , and for the few little books and articles Stephen occasionally produced . |
| 15 | Not every Saturday morning but we used to do this job . |
| 16 | Yeah I used to like , we used to see each other sort of and I |
| 17 | So I er we used to catch these blackbirds and them in a and pull the string and they used er try and catch them and we used to we used to kill them and and pluck them |
| 18 | And erm so we started the Brownies and I could train them and we used to have such fun together , you know |
| 19 | in the bad old days , in the bad old days before high technology caught up with us , when we used to have more literals than in your average your average academic textbook , which takes some doing . |
| 20 | We used to have some fun with that . |
| 21 | . And we used to have er we used to have some donkeys , and we used to have to get those ticked . |
| 22 | ‘ We used to have these games , like we used to have this big trunk , and we used to call that ‘ the dream machine ’ and we used to get all things like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs coming down a conveyer belt , lasers , spaceships , everything . ’ |
| 23 | Well my father , when we lived there he worked at the Colliery and he used to walk home and during he s , before before he m before the strike we used to have these pheasants and things , and rabbits which he used to catch , because early morning he seemed to know exactly where to go to get a a pheasant that was roosting in a tree , you see or a bush . |
| 24 | I mean , I remember mother saying that , you see mother had never seen the sea till she joined the Guild and they decided to save for an outing , and then the next thing I can remember was that we used to have these stamps every week and I think it come to two and ninepence erm and for that we went to Rhyl . |
| 25 | And er , that was in very big demand in those days and of course us being the whatsernames , they , we used to have these things . |
| 26 | Oh ah we used to get together and we used to discuss each other you know what we could take and what we could n't take . |
| 27 | Well we used to make those rings and put the fins on , rivet them on , and the bombs , the , the , the the rings was erm seamlessly weld on a a welder that you two w wheels which were electrically driven and the power was put through them and , and you overlap the two seams like that , and it , as the wheels went round it 'd weld them straight along , they was about eight inches deep seam weld them right down . |
| 28 | We built the shapes up , and it was the the high class shop in , was two sisters on Gate , that er we went to sh er sch er shop and er we used to make these shapes from the coil of wire , these 'll be very nippers that I used , there and still use them today ever so useful . |
| 29 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 30 | We used to send each other pictures . |