Example sentences of "[Wh pn] used [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 2 | Asking for the bloke who used to live at the house . |
| 3 | Those who used to live near the oil wells , in Ahmadi , will probably desert their houses . |
| 4 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 5 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 6 | And my grandfather , who used to weep over the ‘ Second Connecticut March ’ , why ca n't he be included ? |
| 7 | There was one lady called ‘ Toss-Off Kate ’ who used to go round the audience and sit beside various isolated gentlemen and ask them if they wanted to be serviced . |
| 8 | no the blonde lad , the one who used to sit on the door , er |
| 9 | But then we might miss out on Dennis Carthy , the fellow who used to take to the Tube dressed in a bra , a blouse and fishnet stockings and entertain customers on the Bakerloo Line with tricks that involved a teddy bear , a pistol and a six-foot python . |
| 10 | Mr Pecksniff refers to them as ‘ those fabulous animals ( pagan , I regret to say ) who used to sing in the water ’ . |
| 11 | We were brought up nicely to go with my father who used to sing in the church choir . |
| 12 | Not that he knew much about him — English , of course , related to an old friend who used to serve in the Royal Navy and had asked Sanders to accommodate his young kinsman for a week or two as a favour . |
| 13 | Naturally , I heard the stories and one morning saw a bloody trail of gore where the wolves had attacked and dragged away an old beggar woman who used to squat on the corner of the Rue St Jacques . |
| 14 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 15 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 16 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 17 | There is a certain Asian anaesthetist who used to work at the City Hospital Maternity Unit . |
| 18 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |
| 19 | A former accountant who used to work in the music industry with Tony Visconti ( David Bowie 's producer ) , he now has a hit of his own with the quoted company The Pelican Group . |
| 20 | But Mr Abramson , who used to work in the clothing business , said he suffered chest pains because of the shock of the attempted robbery . |
| 21 | They are the dishes invented or popularized by the bargemen of the Rhone and their wives , and by the proprietors of the humble inns and charcuteries who used to cater for the men who worked the inland waterways . |
| 22 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 23 | The proprietor reminded me of the man who used to travel round the Forest villages killing pigs . |
| 24 | The one who used to walk round the corner and get round that corner and give it all that . |
| 25 | She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner . |
| 26 | and he had all the boys pretty well turned out like that , cos that 's another brother who used to come with the mail with the wooden hand |
| 27 | ’ There was one regular customer awe spoken girl who was enormously fat , quite well-to-do — who used to come in the shop a couple of times each week flaunting her jewellery and expensive hairdos . |
| 28 | They would bring their relations , too , and there would always be visiting preachers and singers who used to stay in the dale — we would always find room for our special visitors . |
| 29 | The Rangers midfield player , who used to stand on the Elland Road terraces , fears Howard Wilkinson 's champions could copy Arsenal by going into free-fall after crashing out of Europe . |
| 30 | Was n't he the kid who used to dash across the road , back in Wellport ? |