Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb mod] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Miss Jekyll used to jump five-bar gates when no one was looking . ) |
| 2 | Like Frank Spencer used to do stupid things . |
| 3 | Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm . |
| 4 | An old man called Mr Leatherbarrow used to grow prize-winning onions on the moss . |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |