Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . |
| 2 | It was just one tactic she used to ensure negotiations with Prince Charles 's lawyers stayed secret . |
| 3 | We never had this problem years ago , I mean it 's only do-gooders who stopped the stuff we used to use years ago which was a reasonable price , who 's caused all these problems . |
| 4 | Servants from these houses regularly flushed out the sewers with the water they used to wash clothes so the streets did not reek as they did in Southwark . |
| 5 | Er every night they used to play cards and when I was eighteen my father made me learn cards . |
| 6 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 7 | But only last year she used to spend hours weeping on the floor of her flat because she thought her career was n't getting anywhere . |
| 8 | He flies a plane in the same way he used to sack quarterbacks ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A chap I used to know years ago . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ On medieval Earth they used to label maps with ‘ Here Be Dragons ’ . |
| 11 | Attached to the ring was the piece of wire he used to pick locks . |
| 12 | At one time he used to spend winters with Lord Henry in a little house in Algiers , but now he no longer travelled outside England . |