Example sentences of "[pers pn] used have [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I used to have loads of records , they 're all gone now , scrap |
| 2 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 3 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 4 | When I was younger I used to have fantasies about saving the house by building a dam . |
| 5 | And I I used to have er I u I used to have men working for me , you see ? |
| 6 | ‘ After Dirty Harry I used to have guys pull up next to me and say : ‘ Hey ! |
| 7 | Even then , Terry and I used to have arguments when one of us discovered that Gary had knowledge of things that only the two of us knew . |
| 8 | You see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and we could we could talk . |
| 9 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 10 | And of course some you used to have points to get sweets and things like that . |
| 11 | Dawyck Haig 's son Alexander was much the same age as Alastair and when the two were old enough we used to have fathers ' and sons ' tennis and golf matches . |
| 12 | And we used to have skittles , and what you 'd got to do , for skittles you got to throw to knock them down , do you see ? |
| 13 | we used to have nets and nets of oranges and we used to get up in the morning and just squeeze them |
| 14 | We used to have fogs in Darrowby , but they were country fogs , different from this . |
| 15 | like down at the erm , when I was crane driving , we used to have ships coming from Casablanca , with phosphate in and then there be a , another part there was sulphur , then they used to be erm , there 's green oar , what we used to call |
| 16 | Standards wha , we used to have Standards . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was a great help to me at this time that the RAF introduced a new trade into the Service — Metal Rigger — and to the horror of the old " Chippie Rigger " who fashioned the ancient wooden aircraft , and claimed " we used to have men of steel and kites of wood … sadly now the process has been reversed " . |
| 18 | so we used to have walks sometimes along the front . |
| 19 | And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school . |
| 20 | We used to have arguments , mainly over my going to church . |
| 21 | Yeah , we used to have , yeah we used to have bullocks from Bury . |
| 22 | A. T. If you wanted to have a smoke — we used to have smokes : we were n't angels by any means — you had to get into a shop doorway , put your cigarette in your mouth , strike a match , shield it with your hand , and then blow the match out and then your hand would go up your sleeve . |
| 23 | And I went to church every Sunday where we used to have missionaries who would come and tell tales about how they built churches in jungle clearings with lions gnawing at their legs . ’ |
| 24 | Have common rights , they used to have horses on them like , like horses and stock , you know , cows and to graze belonging to different people . |
| 25 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 26 | Years ago they used to have ceilidhs in Village school , and lots of things , but no longer . |
| 27 | Did they used to have clubs and stuff , the |
| 28 | That they used to have waiters and tables with silver , plated silver |
| 29 | It was , there 's the basement and then a large room above where they used to have meetings er , you see , and er , and er , well they did they had friends from Stowmarket go and visit them , you see . |
| 30 | Yeah , they used to have festivals . |