Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That everyone ought to live on unsurfaced streets ? |
| 2 | And carry them , either carry them , or push them on a two-wheeled trolley , all through the round the lace market to 's , and various other And if I were lucky , and the 's van was going round the lace market , and I 'd got three or four parcels , I used to go with little Tommy and his horse and van , round the lace market , and he was delivering dress goods then . |
| 3 | I used to go to primary school in this on a train . |
| 4 | We used to all wear pinnies , white pinnies , on the top of our dresses and going to school and I used to go into old Mr n and he would say to me And what colour of the bow do you want on your pinny today ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure I used to talk about other things , but I ca n't remember what . |
| 6 | ‘ Before the earthquake I used to dress in bright colours . |
| 7 | I used to listen to other children describing holidays in Bournemouth or Butlin 's or Benidorm , and not wanting to feel out of it I used to invent mine because I had never been anywhere ! |
| 8 | And I must add here that my own skin also became smoother and whilst at times I used to suffer from dry skin , strangely I no longer do . |
| 9 | ‘ I used to work in public relations in France so this is something new . |
| 10 | I used to worry about nuclear power , and now I worry about pollution and dead dolphins — when I 'm not worrying about money . |
| 11 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 12 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 13 | This nervousness about who exactly is being addressed , and how , is linked to a growing sense that the old constellations of class , taste and political affiliation which used to serve as navigational aids for the development of editorial policy have disintegrated . |
| 14 | The danger of involving wind erosion merely because of the form may be well illustrated by the photograph ( Plate 37 ) of a type of minor landform , which used to figure in old accounts of deserts as Zeugen , developed on acid moorland on the Fell Sandstone near Rothbury in Northumberland . |
| 15 | The hotels which used to belong to British Rail have improved substantially . |
| 16 | Declining fish numbers are threatening attempts to reintroduce the bald eagle , which used to breed in large numbers in the area until the 1950s . |
| 17 | In contrast to the commonly held belief that sex spoils athletic performance , Dr Craig Sharp , who used to act as medical adviser to British Olympic competitors , suggested that sexual activity might actually improve things . |
| 18 | In the book , Marje admits she used to flirt with other men in the hope of inflaming Levy . |
| 19 | Previously she used to work for British Telecom in tele-marketing . |
| 20 | Cos she used to work for Green Leaves was it ? |
| 21 | And they used to run er buses to different places , you know , you used to go to different places , and . |
| 22 | Victor : he 's one of those guys you used to see in spunky films about British Tommies — sit him on an ammo box in the back of a rolling three-tonner and he 's asleep in a twinkling . |
| 23 | Yeah , er we used to go to certain ones that 's right |
| 24 | When we used to go to Southern Trust . |
| 25 | We used to walk from New Station at New Street Station at Birmingham u up to Snow Hill Station . |
| 26 | I used to dread these latter events , especially the high jump because we used to land in unraked sand ! |
| 27 | Where the small , unspeakable things we used to share in quiet harmony ? |
| 28 | We used to play at various pubs , and the Pidar Wakefield in Grays Inn Road with The Pogues . |
| 29 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 30 | At this time we used to rehearse in long cardigans . |