Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [prep] [art] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er Granddad was on maintenance , of course , and I used to have to take his meals , so I used to go past the er picket , along with many other people who were busy coal out of the pit tip . |
| 2 | I used to work on the ne , the ne er , drill . |
| 3 | And the yeast used to come to the erm Station at er in wicker baskets , in sacks , little tiny sacks used to be , little Hessian bags sort of thing , pressed into it har , you know what yeast is , you 've seen yeast have n't you ? |
| 4 | when I got there , several times he used to scruffle into the er packing room and come out with those two , three of those well a couple of those large sheets of brown paper that they pack , yeah , pack the few boxes in |
| 5 | But when you used to look at the te , you know , the children 's television programmes , they 're |
| 6 | Just to help but erm yes everybody was in the same position more or less but erm and yet they used to help in a s own little way . |
| 7 | you know that band , yeah well , we used to have one come from the down , he used to tap onto the erm tried to get off and everybody stuck to it . |
| 8 | and how I could , we 'd see him passing and he used to keep , he used to live in a li , like it was a farm place further on , Sand Mill Cafe , I do n't know whether you 've seen it along that road |
| 9 | But the , the lady who was erm what 's her name daughter , she used to live in the erm erm live in the terraced house erm |
| 10 | But er they were always er well-remembered , and er w Spanish Civil War through , I suppose nowadays , you call them fringe newspapers , but there was this paper we used to get at the tim at the time It was n't the er Morning Star , or even it 's predecessor , erm but you got a paper and you sort of heard the other side . |