Example sentences of "er used " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we all used to we we both schools ended up , er used to use the same assembly hall . |
| 2 | And we er used to come through the Bay of Biscay at that time of the day . |
| 3 | And their odd jobs , they 'd probably got men in their own factory to do it , but no they sent them to Dick and I er used to oblige . |
| 4 | And er used to go . |
| 5 | Well he , he , he used to go to er used to go to the British Legion , every Sunday morning . |
| 6 | Well that 's like er tarred rope that 's what it was and er used to put a piece through the wire every foot and when you come to six feet there 'd be a piece of leather , cut in cut one piece of leather . |
| 7 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 8 | And then course that used to be different , er used to be different size timber two by sixes , four by twos , inch by one , er inch by ou I mean inch |
| 9 | Banging that basket he had they have , Erm and er the er used to go there er and there was a boil or was it er er an old fashioned I do n't know . |
| 10 | But I used to th I er used to stick to my bit of stick . |
| 11 | Had the nails in his mouth you know and er used to knock 'em with a file . |
| 12 | Erm I know it 's associated with over extraction of water at certain points but but be that as it may , but in the old days the Sussex Lands Committee er used to be er a county function and did take an overview erm of the whole West Sussex scene in terms of what happened erm it is now really now erm not our responsibility , although we put members on it , it 's a now fairly weak er joint body but it 's pretty toothless . |
| 13 | Well I we used er used to live in Macclesfield and er of course you know it springs to mind when er but I did n't realize it was that long ago . |
| 14 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 15 | With the with the mothers who used to have er used to have babies you know . |
| 16 | and the thing is Lyn the thing that er used to piss me off was she used to wear my knickers and I ca n't stand that . |
| 17 | And er one day I went up there and er erm in there for for over two hours right , and who 's the the P A er used to be er . |
| 18 | I mean to say er used to see people years ago and they got these cine cameras and and all , we could never have one of those you know and a record of the kids when they were young . |
| 19 | And of course as many of you will know , the railway line er used to run just in front , here . |