Example sentences of "used have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's a bit like erm did n't you used to have a word box with words in ? |
| 2 | Built er with bricks built round it and er a tap we used to have a tap on it you see . |
| 3 | Around 250 years ago the meadows in the northern part of this area near the Black Elster river used to have a tinge of red due to ironstone in the soil . |
| 4 | They used to have a joinery class there . |
| 5 | We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch . |
| 6 | Yeah and they used to have a man dressed up as Charlie Chaplin and he used to do his antics on the pitch before the players came out yeah . |
| 7 | If you did it years ago they used to have a man in the lounge , only in the lounge |
| 8 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 9 | when mother used to have a servant you see , she 'd put the kettle on for herself . |
| 10 | I used to have a sewing machine , but I had to sell it when we got into difficulty with an electric bill . |
| 11 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 12 | Well I was in the tennis club when I was a er they used to have a tennis court at the back . |
| 13 | I can re I can recall when you used to have a couple of weeks of er bad weather before Christmas , snow and that , and sometimes even Christmas s er snow on Christmas day |
| 14 | You know you used to have a choice of jobs but you do n't now . |
| 15 | but where , where it 's in , it 's Old Harlow it 's in Old Harlow , but further down , right further down by the Fire Station , he used to have a surgery down there |
| 16 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 17 | No I know you used to have a price . |
| 18 | Now being late , the headmaster always dealt with you fro being late , that was n't a teacher 's responsibility at all.You used to have to line up all those boys that were late , you used to have to line up outside the the headmaster 's room , one at a time , I I jus on each hand , you used to have a cane on each hand . |
| 19 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 20 | I used to have a Spectrum ( sorry ) up until a year ago , and there were two really amazing games called Orc Attack and Car Wars which I loved and lost . |
| 21 | ‘ I also used to have a temper , ’ Edward said , ‘ but it seems to be drawn off now in work . ’ |
| 22 | he used to have a hook did n't he ? |
| 23 | We used to have a showcase at school with just my boxing trophies in it . |
| 24 | I thought there was a somewhere , because you know , whathisname you that black boy he used to have a toy that |
| 25 | Remember we used to have a prisoner group did n't we , when I first came so that the |
| 26 | Simon used to have a Tokay gekko named Wizard . |
| 27 | They used to have a bundle with them on their shoulders , and a bundle in their oxters . " |
| 28 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 29 | No , I 've er , I used to have a bungalow in Wales . |
| 30 | ‘ I used to have a head quite full of interesting things . |