Example sentences of "was [pron] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 2 | I was I used to come up here every week anyway , cos I had friends here but erm I never er I did n't take pictures for months and months and months . |
| 3 | Er I was I used to work with a to an old lady and she passed off . |
| 4 | Time was you used to go out to the pictures to see something new , to escape endless reruns of old TV shows . |
| 5 | I forget what it was you used to make old horse rasps into because for |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And then then after that , the overlooker what was there used to say , Well you you pull frame out so many pegs you see , and it used to pull out , stretch this here lace , and pull out and then they used to dowels at the bottom used to plug in to stop the frames from going back . |
| 8 | Apparently , I mean I 've read this , but I do n't know how there was actual references to it as well but apparently what they used to do run a test they used to do was they used to get people very very angry take some blood from them , put put them inside of rats and it would kill the rats . |
| 9 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 10 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 11 | In the case of instruments proof of the accused 's intent when entering the building with the instrument would be required , i.e. was the instrument only used to gain entry ( no entry ) or was it used to intimidate or to steal goods ? |
| 12 | Was it used to say keep keep saying buy up the time buy up the time ? |