Example sentences of "they [modal v] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wh what they used to people 's shoes . |
| 2 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
| 3 | There 's some people at the flat out there and they used to bricks at the windows and things like that . |
| 4 | Do they ever hold anything down like the way they used to children 's parties at Christmas and , and ? |
| 5 | The back of there there used to be one or two people who used to have little outhouses where they used to sort of make things , and my grandfather up the Pleck , he was a good locksmith and he had his shop at the back of the house and he cou he could watch the Walsall races going on , which is now where the Road is , from his workshop before Street was put and any of those and he could stand in his workshop and watch the races . |
| 6 | 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 . |