Example sentences of "used [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any that you used to go in a lot that you can tell me about ? |
| 2 | I used to work in a factory making toy guns . |
| 3 | Faith Abraham , who used to work in a factory making artificial jewellery , is married to a labourer ; she was born and brought up in Ireland : |
| 4 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 5 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 6 | it 's like , I mean , I mean when I used to work in a hospital you were n't allowed to have hair down and hole in the tights , they 're a load of toffee cows |
| 7 | Just a few years ago , he used to work in a bank . |
| 8 | She used to work in a wool shop in Retford called Wool Shop . |
| 9 | I used to work in a bookshop before I had my baby . ’ |
| 10 | Like I I see it done today I think that sort of thing , you used to stand in a corner . |
| 11 | And they used to come in a lot . |
| 12 | The analysis needed is the same as that used to walk in a square . |
| 13 | He used to buy in a lot of delicacies to pretend to his family that Gina could cook . |
| 14 | ‘ And when we used to live in a hole , nomes were always being squashed by cars . ’ |
| 15 | Chris used to live in a council house , a stone 's throw away from his new £500,000 pad . |
| 16 | Michael Wolff , defending , said Jones used to live in a flat owned by Mr Redmond 's wife and there had been a dispute about £140 in rent allegedly outstanding . |
| 17 | Defense counsel Michael Wolff said that Jones used to live in a flat owned by Mr Redmond 's wife and there had been a long running dispute over £140 rent allegedly outstanding . |
| 18 | I think I was a little bit airy-fairy really , I used to live in a world of me own , I did n't , I was n't terribly interested you know . |
| 19 | When he was young he used to live in a place called Manfield , near Darlington , along with his brother . |
| 20 | We used to live in a house in Manchester in the slums . |
| 21 | ‘ We used to live in a house called The Nest . ’ |
| 22 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 23 | A silly man , I ca n't understand , cos you used to get in a car now what I went in the car Sunday , well it the |
| 24 | And he used to stay in a hostel in , |