Example sentences of "[noun] and they [vb mod] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next door , they 'd got a lot of kids and they used to play marbles , and they used to bounce on these concrete floors . |
| 2 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 3 | I 've seen them towing across the sky with Beecham 's Pills written on them er it was a familiar sight in Walsall at the time , and also sometimes they had a plane sky-writing and they used to write Rinso in smoke in the sky . |
| 4 | Another was spot welding and they used to make er different containers for the , the army . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 7 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 8 | in exchange and they used to do quite a trade in , cos a lot of them were quite skilled at making toys . |
| 9 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 10 | We used to go up there for our breaks as well morning and afternoon and they used to have dances sometimes in the evening . |
| 11 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 12 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 13 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |
| 14 | They used to make it at Cambridge and they used to come and bring , bring one , there used to be a little door in the top of this fridge and they used to slide it in , you see , and then they 'd , that would freeze , keep that fridge cold so 's you kept your meat better . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 17 | Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped |
| 18 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 19 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 20 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 21 | Which was a bakers and confectioners , they used to er bake at the , they got the er the bakehouse at the back and they used to make confectionery and high class bread . |
| 22 | Now that used to go in the old stew pot and they used to boil the bones till the meat dropped off , and the vegetables And that was your most of your meal for the rest of the week . |
| 23 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
| 24 | They used to make it at Cambridge and they used to come and bring , bring one , there used to be a little door in the top of this fridge and they used to slide it in , you see , and then they 'd , that would freeze , keep that fridge cold so 's you kept your meat better . |
| 25 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
| 26 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 27 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 28 | I understand he was always ready for a bit of mischief and they used to tell many tales about him . |
| 29 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 30 | landlords and they used to do whatever they wished to do . |