Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 2 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 3 | And when and when erm dad got in a Land Rover round field it used to beat them down the field ! |
| 4 | I used to ring them up every day but there was nowhere at all . |
| 5 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 6 | I bought it in village in Mark 's Wood I used to take it up the runway and |