Example sentences of "[noun sg] he used to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 2 | water section and then maybe , maybe the other month he used to you get about three thousand rounds of blanks and stuff |
| 3 | Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information . |
| 4 | I know that father he used to you see if he was going away from the island |
| 5 | She saw the spell-binder he used to be and the strength of personality that bound people to him . |
| 6 | Like if he was hitting something and he accidentally hit his ha his thumb or his finger he used to be in agony for I mean it used to hurt him for the rest of the day . |
| 7 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |
| 8 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 9 | For a moment he entertained the hope that he might be allowed to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he used to , or even ‘ Mummy ’ , as she always called herself when speaking to other people . |
| 10 | He did n't enjoy women the way he used to , but killing them was different . |
| 11 | Was he doomed to spend the rest of his working life watching babes in arms wheeling and dealing the way he used to ? |
| 12 | He hardly ever stays to talk the way he used to . |
| 13 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 14 | He 's not the player he used to be but I suppose you could say the same about me . ’ |
| 15 | In fact he used to be seen lunching austerely in his favourite vegetarian restaurant on the corner of Leicester Square , where the permitted maximum of five shillings for the price of a meal could only be spent by earnest application . |
| 16 | But he will no longer be the rude , racist chap he used to be . |