Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [to-vb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er they used to get them to take these pills they said and they used to drink a bottle of gin , keep drinking gin . |
| 2 | They used to drink a lot of beer in groups which I did n't like myself . |
| 3 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 4 | They used to do a lot of these er mosquito nets . |
| 5 | Ooh well they used to well they did n't used to sing a lot of songs but er they used to do a lot of you know playing about and perhaps and then they 'd perhaps have a ball . |
| 6 | You know how they used to do a lot of weaving , they do n't do so much now . |
| 7 | They used to wear a lot of the collars with a , with a wing on the hard collar , you know , they used to wear a hard collar then . |
| 8 | Cut it up in the rump and the topside , silverside and erm and take the shin off and the loin of beef , you see , and your flank and you 'd take your suet out , you see , cos they used to sell a lot of suet in them days . |
| 9 | They used to sound a hell of a lot like The Chameleons . |
| 10 | To make it harder for vermin to get into 'em they used to draw a wagon alongside a stack , and stand on the wagon with a scythe and then trim the stack . |
| 11 | A common user was er , just an open truck with two doors one each side and they used to put a tarpaulin over the top . |
| 12 | The Cat House well that 's at , the Cat House , that 's wher that 's where the house used to be , where in er time erm , that 's where they used to put a cat in the window for the smokers . |
| 13 | Now they restrict cattle to the 14-hectare hillside plot which they 've had since 1979 — and from which they used to scrape a living of maize and beans before they invaded the valley-bottom land at La Colorada . |
| 14 | They used to share a bottle of wine , Don reflected . |
| 15 | If I go to my baker I 'll er , I 'll fetch one back and I 'll show ya , they , they used to grow a lot during war to make jam on to subsidize folk to make jam and stuff like that you know |
| 16 | For instance , they used to play a kind of game ( about twice a week , or rather more often if Odilo put his foot down ) , where she must lie still and show no sign of life , throughout . |
| 17 | Aye and mind the lasses they used to play a lot with instead of marbles they were working with . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you did it years ago they used to have a man in the lounge , only in the lounge |
| 20 | They used to have a bundle with them on their shoulders , and a bundle in their oxters . " |
| 21 | And they used t they used to have a little , they used to have a railway from the sewer outfall , a little one , narrow one , there used to be , as I say used to have a machine up the top of the hill and they used to pull one down and one up . |
| 22 | Erm Yeah they used to have a lot of trouble in submarines and things as they had problems with their batteries flooding and then they start to electrolyzing the sodium chloride , the salt the sea water , and getting chlorine given off . |
| 23 | Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas |
| 24 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 25 | He was another character er there was er I remember they used to have a lot of socials and things at the church you know , it was very well attended I suppose in those days . |
| 26 | And in fact the bigger farms than ours , they used to have a circle of stones . |
| 27 | Oh well they used to have a list of places . |
| 28 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 29 | see but we had a head bag where they used to fold a sack in half or put one part through the other and put over the head . |
| 30 | The was the main place round here but they used to stay a lot at the er over there at . |