Example sentences of "there used to [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 2 | Well when they 've got this here lace , there used to be all pins at the side of this er of these er frames . |
| 3 | When there used to be all houses round there , there used to be a fish shop there as well . |
| 4 | There used to be two shelves in the oven . |
| 5 | In the UK there used to be two taxes that tax wealth per se rather than the income that is derived from wealth . |
| 6 | Exactly oh yes that was shared between the men what erm , there used to be two men so they 'd get er share the three pound between them or five pound whatever it was . |
| 7 | We used to , twenty eight there used to be two lavatories , madam and gents , you know . |
| 8 | There used to be two varieties known as the Maroilles and Picardy in France . |
| 9 | They still work I they 've got there used to be one man er employed to erm give these er boats water , fresh water drinking water |
| 10 | There used to be one woman one end and one woman the other , with something like something similar to the shape as a ladder . |
| 11 | There used to be five men go on a boat . |
| 12 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 13 | The assumption of this explanation is , of course , that there used to be many couples who wanted a divorce but could not have one because their case was not covered by any legislation . |
| 14 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 15 | There used to be worse enemies : moss , for instance , and the emerald hell of clover . |
| 16 | There used to be another tree , I believe , known as Robin Hood 's Larder … |
| 17 | Bottom part of Harlow , down by the Fire Station where do they , there used to be another doctor had a surgery down there Dr |
| 18 | And then there used to be old Tom and Mary . |
| 19 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 20 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 21 | Did n't there used to be a cottage on that roadside where them big tanks is , did n't there used to be some cottages . |
| 22 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 23 | Oh of course down there the bottom and that there used to be a lot of erm there used to be some lodging houses what they call lodging houses for people what 's got nowhere to go you know , you used to sleep and . |
| 24 | There was a little post office there and there used to be some shop on there . |
| 25 | Clean the There used to be huge stocks leading right up to Mapperley Pit , of this slag and stuff , and they sold all that off , and er that was the year that fought and Al broke his thumb on him . |
| 26 | is a is a place where ooh there , there used to be any number of Welsh chapels |
| 27 | There used to be big families I 've seen down at there were six girls there . |