Example sentences of "we used [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying . |
| 32 | We used to meet a lot here in town , go out for a meal . ’ |
| 33 | We used to chat a lot as we rested during the frequent route marches out of camp at Southampton . |
| 34 | ‘ We used to have a shop in this block which sold leads , collars , blankets , and so on , to anybody who took a rescued dog from us for rehoming . |
| 35 | When The Chameleons were going we used to have a riot . ’ |
| 36 | We used to have a good long walk somewhere in the Dales every weekend . |
| 37 | We used to have a lovely ‘ do ’ in the summer . |
| 38 | We used to have a lot of good nights like that and this was up there among the best . |
| 39 | We used to have a clock and the teacher used to turn its hands round and say , ‘ Now what time is it ? ’ |
| 40 | We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch , just under my bedroom window . |
| 41 | We used to have a showcase at school with just my boxing trophies in it . |
| 42 | Remember we used to have a prisoner group did n't we , when I first came so that the |
| 43 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 44 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 45 | We 've got an emergency exit where we used to have a roof . |
| 46 | There used to be rubbish dumps and mud and all that and we used to have a laugh there , you know what I mean ? |
| 47 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 48 | We used to have a bath once a week . |
| 49 | And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding . |
| 50 | We used to have a pick , er er that was a blade that had a slot in it and you had a pick shaft with a box and er a an iron box on the top . |
| 51 | Oh we used to hole underneath the coal and er and then er Oh oh we used to have a ringer That was a long steel ringer that you could put behind the slines in the slines and lever the coal off you see ? |
| 52 | Back you 'd go then to the We used to have a a a a machine then , an electric box affair , that used to put your lamp in , it would set your wick at a certain angle that there wo made a spark and when you 'd close this up , it caused a spark that would light your wick again you see ? |
| 53 | But erm we used to have a little shed , a little hut in the pit yard , where we used to go and pay our dues , every week |
| 54 | And er the er we used to have a piece of wood , a small piece of wood that was shaped er like a sort of almost like torpedo at both ends . |
| 55 | We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch . |
| 56 | And we used to have a box lamp . |
| 57 | We used to have a a dosser here . |
| 58 | But we certainly did some good work in the education because I think that we erm we used to , you know , of course we 'd , we 'd got used to use our auxiliaries naturally and erm we used to have a big conc a big er concert once a year in the town hall and er we would involve all the auxiliaries you know erm and of course we used to always erm fell a bit flat , the International Day which is July , the first Ju Saturday in July is International Day , Co-operative International , and we have always , the Guilds have worked very closely with the International Day . |
| 59 | And we used to go to town , we used to have really good , good er good day erm we used to have a procession and erm local , course local dignitaries used to come er , I I 've got a , one or two pictures in my scrapbook where erm it , I was asking , telling Jean she would have to look up er when we did begin trendsetters . |
| 60 | Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up , but I ca n't see them going , whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the , we used to have a fete and it was a politically , I ca n't remember exactly what it would be called , but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they 'd always got their rosettes on . |