Example sentences of "they used [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 2 | Da tells me they used to do a decent lunch at the chop-house by Holborn Viaduct . ’ |
| 3 | the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands |
| 4 | The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house . |
| 5 | They used to wear a lot of the collars with a , with a wing on the hard collar , you know , they used to wear a hard collar then . |
| 6 | And er of course everybody there were only about what half a dozen fitters in those days and erm er as a mark of their profession or trade in those days , they used to wear a white collar you know , with out a tie . |
| 7 | I desired you and — how shall we put it — I am as they used to say a little bit priapic . ’ |
| 8 | He was what they used to call a bad influence in the school . |
| 9 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 10 | Then they used to put a thick layer round the sides to start with , then they would fill in the middle and keep that always stronger so that each layer er it curved . |
| 11 | And of course , on the shooting , they used to have a good feed of you know in the mansion in the cellar . |
| 12 | They used to have a profitable business rearing surplus Friesian heifer calves for sale in-calf. but since TB was found in their herd in January 1986 they have had two periods at Whalley Farm , Whittington , near Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , when they were not allowed to move cattle off the farm , except for immediate slaughter . |
| 13 | In East German they are now drowning in rubbish because they used to have a perfect recycling scheme everything was collected and recycled cos they just did n't have the materials . |
| 14 | Oh yes , sacks of other and they used to have a proper corner seedman 's shop , which you do n't see about today the er Garden Centre has knocked all that on the nut has n't it really ? |
| 15 | They used to have a photographic club , and all the sports , they had the golf and er billiards and pool and swimming |
| 16 | and they used to have a little screw |
| 17 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 18 | Well they used to have a little rowing boat and come after it , he used to get one of the lads while they come ashore and got his dinner . |
| 19 | Cos , they sold out the , that 's all now and I think came from Yarmouth , they used , they used to have a big place at Yarmouth and we came through the other week and er I see their sheds are nearly all empty now , there . |