Example sentences of "[coord] we used get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We used to have these games , like we used to have this big trunk , and we used to call that ‘ the dream machine ’ and we used to get all things like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs coming down a conveyer belt , lasers , spaceships , everything . ’ |
| 2 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 3 | But certainly when we first went into first aid and we used to get regular calls in personnel all about , oh where 's the first aid ? |
| 4 | And we used to get it from Chile . |
| 5 | And we used to get the fish flaps , but nobody else would have them , you know ? |
| 6 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 7 | I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P , and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night , and s then about nineteen , course we had the general strike , and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know , distributing the illegal leaflets , and er newspapers that we duplicated , on a hand duplicator . |
| 8 | They always had somebody staying there ; and we used to get into bed about ten o'clock — later than that sometimes when they had a dinner party ! |
| 9 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |
| 10 | They might be about er a month old , perhaps six weeks old and we used to get them sometimes , most of the time we would get about four there , sometimes three . |
| 11 | And we used to get a lot of Californian fruit . |
| 12 | So that changed me and after that it went from you know , higher and higher all the time , the more and we used to get . |
| 13 | Oh yes , yes , they even had like they used to have savings ' weeks er salute the soldier week , they used to have promotions for National Savings you see and we used to get so much money or where they had a bid thermometer on the car park in Street which is now the extension of the Gala Baths and they used to show how much savings had been put in they used to have targets for people , to put the National Savings in , they used to have an Anglo-American friendship week . |
| 14 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 15 | used to get told to go out in the Autumn and we used to get told by the , used to get taken out by the teacher into some woods and you would have to collect the leaves . |
| 16 | we used to have nets and nets of oranges and we used to get up in the morning and just squeeze them |
| 17 | Used to do it down there and we used to get stones that blew up and poinged everywhere ! |
| 18 | But we used to get sent out to after the stuff left out the the shop , we used to have to go maybe touch up anything |
| 19 | I have n't had this particular one before but we used to get a little used to be able to get it in little about |