Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] used [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I worked a lot in one which I used to call D4 — basically taking the second string down to A and then sometimes taking the third string down to F sharp — open D. But sometimes keeping the third string tuned to G. I also used to tune to D minor sometimes and take the F sharp down to F , but sometimes keeping the E at the top so you 'd have a ninth . ’ |
| 2 | He had some lovely tartan coloured rugs which I used to go and admire over at Clove Lodge , where he would take lodgings for the night . |
| 3 | And another sixteen percent is the other Ne Nestle coffee erm Blend Thirty Seven which I used to drink a long time ago and others and twenty two percent is er |
| 4 | My nominee for the non-sport of the future is one which I used to watch on television regularly . |
| 5 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 6 | you see , you just think it 's or have you experienced that you were , first you had a bad or a good impression and then you had to change which I used to do very often . |
| 7 | Reading coach Colin Lee added : ‘ Lambert does things which I used to see on tapes of George Best . |
| 8 | Then I have my Flying V which I used to play all the time . |
| 9 | But for years there was a large bomb site down the road , on which I used to play with my friend Howard , who lived three doors the other way . |
| 10 | The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years ! |
| 11 | ‘ I had one of those four-sting guitars which I used to tune in one key . |
| 12 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 13 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 14 | And then of course there was a erm also the scrubbing board , which was a corrugated board which you used to rub the clothes on like that . |
| 15 | But she was no intellectual and , apart from a passion for the ballet , which she used to attend with her grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy , she was like any ordinary teenager . |
| 16 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 17 | Like Aurangzeb , she controlled a network of spies which she used to keep her brother well in touch with developments in the court . |
| 18 | Where had the long silences gone , Molly wondered , into which she used to retreat in the company of her parents ? |
| 19 | Viewers , touched by her life , sent gifts of money which she used to buy not comforts for herself but more cows , and that meant more crippling winter work . |
| 20 | If that does n't attract you or you 're not interested in the solitary life of home exercise , you could instead try Step Reebok , the latest buzzword in exercise-to-music , which we used to call aerobics , did n't we ? |
| 21 | And the new single , ‘ Certain People I Know ’ / ‘ Jack The Ripper ’ , will prove no exception to the rule , coming in a special promo sleeve which , so the Parlophone press office reckons , ‘ Has artwork similar to that which we used to use on T-Rex singles . ’ |
| 22 | Jake also had a share in a larger , sea-going vessel , which we used to visit in the harbour , examining enviously the neat bunks and tiny galley . |
| 23 | The lowering of water-levels to allow ploughing of damp pasture has removed the nesting habitat of many birds which we used to take for granted , such as snipe , lapwing , and redshank . |
| 24 | But if it was a very posh place er you 'd probably have your meals with the housekeeper , which we used to enjoy better really . |
| 25 | I might still have the odd tin of some oval golden tablets , big as gooseberries , which we used to give them for worms . |
| 26 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 27 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 28 | They used to walk the twelve miles Stowmarket to Ipswich , they used to go to the police station after five o'clock , and they used to get a ticket , which they used to take up to the casual ward . |
| 29 | Now they restrict cattle to the 14-hectare hillside plot which they 've had since 1979 — and from which they used to scrape a living of maize and beans before they invaded the valley-bottom land at La Colorada . |
| 30 | In pursuit of their ends , reformers and others were compelled to alter their perceptions of ( and attitudes toward ) young people and , therefore , the images which they used to order and define them . |