Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [modal v] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 2 | Since she 's gone there 's been a gap … it made my life better , because — she had a garden I could use … and it was like a job — I felt I was led to do that job … and she used to be so pleased to see me , she used to almost embrace me with tears in her eyes . |
| 3 | And she used to be so pretty … ’ |
| 4 | There was a lot of stress on resources , and by resources I do n't just mean books in libraries , I mean staffing resources primarily … and we used to be very fierce about the quality of course leadership , for example . |
| 5 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 6 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 7 | And he ought to be terribly concerned about the acid rain that 's falling on Europe as well as what 's happening |
| 8 | I was at the Embassy then , and it used to be very busy . |
| 9 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 10 | But of course it was lovely with er , er they used to trim it up Christmas time you know and it used to be so lovely . |
| 11 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 12 | The gates are usually locked at night and it used to be fairly standard practice that people going in and out had to identify themselves . |
| 13 | Mm and it used to be all around her mouth and she used to have a bit here sort of one of those old ladies who had whiskers on her chin and it 'd be all white . |