Example sentences of "[no cls] [pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early . |
| 2 | And er I used to think in the old days that bookbinding was a very common thing , but since I 've grown er and gone through the world , I thought he was a very clever man . |
| 3 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 4 | So er we used to go through the motions and er after about er three weeks I think it was , no , yeah , two or three weeks anyway . |
| 5 | And er we used to go on the High Road together , shopping together , And perhaps Sunday afternoons she 'd say , Oh come on Ada let's have a ride down Nottingham . |
| 6 | But erm I remember er we used to play in the houses as they were |
| 7 | They er they used to come at the first , and I 'll tell you this and I , it 's my opinion , they got one of their own men er I 'd foxed them off , you know what I mean , to do their own odd jobs . |
| 8 | And my father s he er he used to go in the Plum Tree and one of the landlords there he 'd say er , Tom lend us a quid . |
| 9 | When he was in work , and then sh we used to go to the local butcher 's shop on a Saturday night , with the old bag , six o'clock Saturday night to Mr 's . |
| 10 | Oh yes I used to go and fetch the er erm I used to go into every week , oh there was the maypole next to as well . |
| 11 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 12 | Yes we went to erm we used to go through the , the manual for woodwork . |
| 13 | bottle and erm they used to queue at the table that for the |
| 14 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 15 | And er there was the er the kids from his erm he w he was going to school when he died and er there was children from his class walking along cos they we they used to walk to the cemeteries then and carrying a wreath of er flowers , I remember it as if it was yesterday . |