Example sentences of "used to go [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What used to go to the matches when you were a lad ? |
| 2 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 3 | She used to go to the butchers and get breast of lamb , scrag-end , sheep 's head , pig 's head . |
| 4 | ‘ We used to go to The Mayfair and Oxford Galleries in Newcastle and The Brighton in Gateshead , ’ recalls Muriel , now ‘ fiftysomething ’ . |
| 5 | and you would he used to go to the house and |
| 6 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 7 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 8 | So er we used to go through the motions and er after about er three weeks I think it was , no , yeah , two or three weeks anyway . |
| 9 | Direct , the same as erm fertiliser coming in , a lot of lorries would come down there and get the fertiliser , different say merchants , different farmers , they used to go through the agent and they 'd buy so much off the agent , this different fertiliser if could n't supply it , what they wanted . |
| 10 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 11 | ‘ He used to go into the bathroom and lock himself in there for hours . |
| 12 | You used to go in the fields and turn it and when it had been turned they used to start leading . |
| 13 | There was one lady called ‘ Toss-Off Kate ’ who used to go round the audience and sit beside various isolated gentlemen and ask them if they wanted to be serviced . |