Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Frank Spencer used to do stupid things . |
| 2 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |
| 3 | Eric Clapton used to buy medium gauge sets , discard the sixth string and move the other strings across so that the 5th became the 6th , and used a plain banjo G string for the top E. |
| 4 | ( Miss Jekyll used to jump five-bar gates when no one was looking . ) |
| 5 | Dick and Donna Pfeiffer instilled the work ethic into their children at a tender age — Michelle used to clean second-hand fridges for her father at 50 cents apiece . |
| 6 | Tom used to go white and silent at first , and then end up shouting back in sheer self-defence . ’ |
| 7 | To add up different countries ' output , the IMF used to convert local-currency GDPs into dollars at market exchange rates . |
| 8 | Dave Brock used to go onstage in a lab-coat , so me and me mates used to finish school and still wear our lab-coats everywhere . |
| 9 | Winsor & Newton used to make double-sided drawing pins , but alas , no longer . |
| 10 | Winsor & Newton used to make double-sided drawing pins , but alas , no longer . |
| 11 | Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm . |
| 12 | I thought Tracey and Sharon used to get drunk at lunchtime on a Friday and have a punch up . |
| 13 | An old man called Mr Leatherbarrow used to grow prize-winning onions on the moss . |
| 14 | Steve used to sing backing vocals on it , but he was singing completely different words because he could n't understand what I was on about . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Their manager Carl Harris used to play professional football in the South , and he 's on first-name terms with people at bigger clubs , which Northern clubs ca n't compete with , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Even solidago ( goldenrod ) , which in London used to colonise old bomb sites , has its place in larger arrangements . |
| 17 | did the studs round Newmarket used to keep fancy birds ? |