Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [noun prp] used " in BNC.

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1 Is it one that Ken and Margaret used to have ?
2 One of them , in actual fact , got into the hands of Lindsay Kemp and Lindsay used to use the album as background for his mime work at his concerts .
3 In fact , Shane ‘ Patrick Number Six ’ MacGowan and Shaun used to be in a group together at school long before The Pogues and the Mondays were formed .
4 She remembered how close Connor and Rosie used to be ; he had always been very fond of his half-sister — there was no doubt about that .
5 Similarly September , October and November used to be the seventh , eighth and ninth months , and March was the first month of the year according to the old Julian calendar instituted in 46BC .
6 My steelworker Dad ( Bill Bartles ) , Had Blythen and Fred used to take Had 's son , David , and myself on the 3.05a.m. ’ paper train ’ to Briggs in Lincolnshire to fish the River Ancholme .
7 is it , ah , they used to be su , according to everyone he was such a so and so , he er , he 's , he used to be barmy , he was like the clo , close barmy man and he used to like chase people around with bricks and stuff and everyone used to hate him and like Julian and Andy used to beat him up all the time
8 I expect you remember the lovely lake at the end of our road , and the rides in the sampan , or going out with the Moothams when Maria used to say , at the end of an excursion , ‘ Rachel never stops talking ! ’
9 Winsor & Newton used to make double-sided drawing pins , but alas , no longer .
10 Winsor & Newton used to make double-sided drawing pins , but alas , no longer .
11 I thought Tracey and Sharon used to get drunk at lunchtime on a Friday and have a punch up .
12 Charles and James used to go to the national conferences and there meet other like-minded ‘ wets ’ concerned about the right-wing drift to Thatcherism .
13 Do you remember that George and Mildred used to be on telly in comedy ?
14 George and Tony used to pay themselves £350 a week after setting up the firm at the height of the last recession in 1982 .
15 Iain and Tommy used to drink with Christopher .
16 That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go .
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