Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were like that and then of course they used to be er no washing machines you used to be at these here tubs . |
| 2 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 3 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 4 | At that time , I mean , I have known when my , when I was a dredger and they used t we used to clean the bottom , I have known er mussels on the bottom , used to feed on , be on the side of the ship , good mussels , but of course there used to be cockles , winkles . |
| 5 | Named after the strips of lead which used to be inserted between lines of metal type . |
| 6 | There is no longer the mass interest in football there used to be . |
| 7 | In fact he used to be seen lunching austerely in his favourite vegetarian restaurant on the corner of Leicester Square , where the permitted maximum of five shillings for the price of a meal could only be spent by earnest application . |
| 8 | I 'm improving — in fact I used to be much worse . |
| 9 | He 'd just look at us and wave and smile until we got to Khabarovsk which used to be named Katerinberg and was the city where , supposedly , the Czar and his family were murdered . |
| 10 | And er then er then at the at bottom there used to be er a clothes shop . |
| 11 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |