Example sentences of "that people used " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the nice thing was that people used to join us . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ The irony is that people used to think I was terribly strong — particularly after that commercial — but I had never managed to cope with life at all . |
| 3 | But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses . |
| 4 | Er I know there were complaints that people used to throw rubbish out of the windows . |
| 5 | But you know you mentioned that people used to help out with the dogs . |
| 6 | Not that people used to let you know about they were hard up I mean , they just would n't would they ? |
| 7 | I , I , I 've heard in Birmingham that people used to wait until quite late on a Saturday night to get |
| 8 | a full set of toys that people used to play with in the old days , and that sort of thing |
| 9 | Yes , the frustrated mother ca n't be generous and so forth with her child , and on the whole I think the emphasis that people used to put on mothers staying at home was very misguided , because a mother who 's having to sacrifice all her outside interests for the sake of her child is just a frustrated mother , and it 's not good for the also the problem is that you then have fairly energetic women devoting all they have to children , then they over-invest in the child 's own achievements , so in fact you are putting a great psychological burden on the child because it has to grow up fulfilling expectations of an adult , which is not right for a child . |