Example sentences of "[conj] we used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we used to b boil the water . |
| 2 | that 's right where we used to perhaps |
| 3 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 4 | Could n't we have the arguments that we used to ? |
| 5 | Er you see the the wireless that we 'd got was the old cats whisker on a crystal , you see , and a pair of earphones that we used to And if anybody rustled a paper , you see ? |
| 6 | There was different th different things that we used to used to do , I mean erm that was Sunday taken care of . |
| 7 | It 's not long ago , Aunt Tossie thought ( or said to Gigi — who was still eking out her parrot 's longevity ) that we used to be rich , dear bird . |
| 8 | But erm and all the old mill for milling that we used to used I mean kept our hands clean anyway . |
| 9 | We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be . |
| 10 | ‘ We were often so hungry that we used to actually lick the vaseline mixture that was smeared over our bodies to stop the skin chapping . ’ |
| 11 | And there was the like for the corn and that we used to what we called hammling it was done with a flail . |
| 12 | on that tape that we used to ha oh God ! |
| 13 | This is the r George the drummer that we used to in nineteen sixty |
| 14 | It 's also tied to the fact that were , we have less money than we used to because of the introduction of Poll Tax , it is tied to that cos we are constrained but , erm that 's the kind of thing that we get brought into to support , erm and then another area is progressing policy initiative 's in other Council departments . |
| 15 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 16 | Firstly , we are , we 're trying to ensure that wherever possible , children do n't come into care , and we 're spending a lot more money than we used to in keeping out of care ; helping families etc . |
| 17 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 18 | The clay would n't lea you could n't clear the buckets , so we used to what we had a grafting tool , that was like a spade but that was , er , that was er , narrow at one end , the spade at the bottom end was a bit narrow so you could cut th cut the clay out of , out the buckets and that was a hard job too . |
| 19 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 20 | I remember the once we used to e he used to catch er blackbirds . |
| 21 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 22 | And we used to do these er pictures that u used to be on er grey and blue paper and we used to , with white paint we used to make a sort of anything there and then with erm charcoal sticks we used to draw on it . |
| 23 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
| 24 | And we used to There at there at that school every morning we hads to line in the in the playground and he used inspect your hands for cleanliness , and your shoes . |
| 25 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 26 | And we used to be selling them at midnight . |
| 27 | And we used to c as we had nicknames for the ones we did n't like , she was called . |
| 28 | And we used to sort of arrange it when one was n't cooking the other one would be you know and this sort of thing . |
| 29 | There was a lot of stress on resources , and by resources I do n't just mean books in libraries , I mean staffing resources primarily … and we used to be very fierce about the quality of course leadership , for example . |
| 30 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |