Example sentences of "they used come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of them used to come in and religiously buy something every week . |
| 2 | It 's just a thread and draw it out and then it they used to come apart . |
| 3 | They used to come over for the spud-picking and go to Ormskirk and live in a bothy and would come to Scotland Place because there were so many wakes . |
| 4 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 5 | And they used to come up to the maintenance workshop |
| 6 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 7 | They used to come up with the dredging spoil |
| 8 | That 's when they used to come up and put it in the straight on to the station . |
| 9 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |
| 10 | Instead of having they had to come through the Dock Commission all of the men , they wanted so and so men for that boat , they used to come through to me . |
| 11 | They used to come here , yes , to this hotel to spend their last nights before they went to that bridge to hurl themselves off , sometimes in front of a train ; but now the line has gone and the track removed we do n't get so many nuts coming to end their days . |
| 12 | No , we bought them all secondhand well they used to come round with this , not secondhand stuff but all new stuff and he used to go round the dock selling different er water boot socks and sweaters and he dealer . |
| 13 | They used to come round with cheap stuff , getting rid of their rubbish . |
| 14 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 15 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 16 | You see they used to come around and they they , they er the Kendal ones used to sell baskets and basket chairs and , and a lot of kind of er stuff made with and then |
| 17 | And then after the first seven or eight s cuttings , then they used to come along stooking . |
| 18 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 19 | We 'd be down there with a load and they used to come along and inspect it . |
| 20 | They used to come out in threes I think moulds . |
| 21 | but the only thing was , sometimes you know , the the visitors in the mornings they used to come out , the visitors . |
| 22 | We did , we did the Merry Widow and we had , th the Gazettes they 're called , th the Gazettes and er they used to come out the wings with all this , you know ? |
| 23 | They used to come out every summer to Southmoor , where I lived , to pick the hops and work on the local market garden and erm I agree with whoever said if you treat them right they 'll treat you right . |
| 24 | Yes I I can remember as a child my grandmother 's erm , family all lived in the east end and I can remember that the you know on the occasions that they used to come down and see us there was always tins of fruit and all sorts of |
| 25 | They used to come down from the North-German , Swiss , English , American . |
| 26 | They used to give us gum and sweets everything and the , they sometimes , the military police they used to come down town and they 'd be after deserters from Lichfield and |
| 27 | I remember when I was about two-and-a-half or three , they used to come in and say to her , ‘ Mrs McGuigan , we do n't want to alarm you but your son is on top of that thirty-foot pole out there , ’ and my mother would say , ‘ Oh , that 's old hat , let's hear something new . ’ |
| 28 | But erm no we there were , there were all sorts er there was , they used to come in of course from the country . |
| 29 | I think when I was n't there they used to come in and feed them and the girls all used to come round and bill and coo over them . |
| 30 | Oh they had good nights and there were always a crowd of boys there and they used to come in and pinch the . |