Example sentences of "[pers pn] used have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 2 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 3 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to have a lot of fights and got a reputation . |
| 5 | One of my favourite B-52s songs is ‘ The Deathbeat Club ’ and I used to have a deadbeat club . ’ |
| 6 | I used to have a special gimmick — when I used to do my clog dance , I used to shout to the audience , ‘ Throw pennies , ’ and that 's what they used to do . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to have a terribly runny nose , ’ said Marian , ‘ and I was that much younger than him and he would be landed with me by Mam . |
| 8 | I used to have a Spectrum ( sorry ) up until a year ago , and there were two really amazing games called Orc Attack and Car Wars which I loved and lost . |
| 9 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 10 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 11 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 12 | I used to have a sewing machine , but I had to sell it when we got into difficulty with an electric bill . |
| 13 | I used to have a friend at Hull University but we 're doing this a year too late . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to have a memory , like , but my mind has blown , ’ Jo-Ann said . |
| 15 | I used to have a load of homework to take home with me because I had to catch up but I did n't used to mind that . |
| 16 | I used to have a dish here flung out now , that he repaired , and repaired it with staples . |
| 17 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 18 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 19 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 20 | I used to have a special dread of Friday afternoons . |
| 21 | In the past I used to have a , a class on psycho- history , and I dropped it , and one of the reasons why I dropped it was , the lit a lot of the literary was very poor quality , for a start , and erm , people , er , students , er got that too , and I could n't really blame them . |
| 22 | I used to have a little stick . |
| 23 | ‘ I used to have a head quite full of interesting things . |
| 24 | I used to have a friend , the only other boy of my age in the congregation , before he went to Nottingham . |
| 25 | Erm , and now let's see I used to have a file on this , but I might have passed it or given all the stuff away |
| 26 | ‘ I used to have a tutee who lived there , ’ she responded brightly when the professor 's wife told her in which part of London they had their house . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to have a tutee who lived there , ’ she told Guido . |
| 28 | I used to have a severe temper with violent outbursts and I ended up killing someone and I never wanted to kill again . |
| 29 | My father , they always had white , my fath I used to have a white apron when I was |
| 30 | I used to have a white apron . |