Example sentences of "[noun] and [pers pn] used [verb] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well there were a woman that used to have have that and they called her Maggie and she used to serve drinks there , whisky and that was before Stromness was voted dry you see . |
| 4 | Cherry Vanilla and I used to take care of our time when we were n't rehearsing by pretending we were rock and roll journalists — which we were n't . |
| 5 | We used to go up there for our breaks as well morning and afternoon and they used to have dances sometimes in the evening . |
| 6 | My brother , sister and I used to scorn Pa 's " stop-watch slavery " as we called it and drew sketches of him whipping his work people to faster and faster production until they dropped with exhaustion . |
| 7 | Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business . |
| 8 | Two old sisters in Portsmouth kept shops side by side : the great-aunt running a coal shop where ‘ you had to go in there with your pail , and they weighed the coal ’ , with vegetables as a sideline , while ‘ my gran she had a wee shop and she used to sell toffee apples . ’ |
| 9 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 10 | When we first met my fiancé and I used to make love every day and often in really unusual places — in fields , on the beach , in the car and so on . |
| 11 | milk them and make erm make the buttermilk and we used to have buttermilk and potatoes in a basin mixed up and |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They got no coolers or anything like that , fridges , and nothing of that you know , and er , you 'd got a , we used to fetch it in the morning and we used to supply Massey 's Lavender 's in and two other , two or three other little places . |
| 14 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 15 | go into the Brownies and I used to go Windsor every year actually with my two . |
| 16 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 17 | And they , they , we was on the floor and they used to make shit out of her I 'm telling ya . |
| 18 | is it , ah , they used to be su , according to everyone he was such a so and so , he er , he 's , he used to be barmy , he was like the clo , close barmy man and he used to like chase people around with bricks and stuff and everyone used to hate him and like Julian and Andy used to beat him up all the time |
| 19 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 20 | Even then , Terry and I used to have arguments when one of us discovered that Gary had knowledge of things that only the two of us knew . |
| 21 | It was only Sunday services but er we did occasionally have , cos you do n't get a wedding every day , but we did sing occasionally at the weddings , the biggest service was at Easter when there was quite a performance at Easter yes Joh Johnny he was a he was in the choir and he 's , there was another woman that might be interested a Mrs in Street during the fourteen war they used to have the Red Cross collection and they 'd organize processions round round the streets collecting for the Red Cross and they used to knit socks and send them out and all that sort of thing |
| 22 | Originally my colleagues and I used to give demonstrations whilst the teacher observed and then tried to copy . |