Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [modal v] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | And you used to have a little ticket , with the days on , and they used to punch it with the old , you remember the old punching machines , do n't you ? |
| 4 | And she used to say a big head |
| 5 | This was a rather isolated place , tucked behind a hill and she used to run a little shop , probably for the company as much as anything . |
| 6 | And she used to have a blonde streak in her hair . |
| 7 | And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding . |
| 8 | Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains . |
| 9 | The straw and they used to have a like a little erm out at the top of the straw to let the heat out . |
| 10 | Oh yes , sacks of other and they used to have a proper corner seedman 's shop , which you do n't see about today the er Garden Centre has knocked all that on the nut has n't it really ? |
| 11 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 12 | and they used to have a little screw |
| 13 | And he used to have a small piece of stick with a on the end of it , cut from er a tree or a bush . |
| 14 | And he used to have a small stand on it do you see , to hold the barrel , and then he could manoeuvre around just like a machine gun . |
| 15 | So if we want to find out , and twenty five over a hundred , we 've got the s , it 's a special fraction , and it used to have a special name for it , and we call these percentages , twenty five per hundred , twenty five hundredths , we just say twenty five per cent . |