Example sentences of "[is] [Wh adv] [pron] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this is how I used to live … |
| 2 | . And that 's how they used to start the o and the old gas engine it used to pop pop pop , pop pop pop , pop pop pop pop . |
| 3 | Oh yes , it was marvellous , that 's how they used to make it , in those days . |
| 4 | That 's how they used to live there , at them times . |
| 5 | And take the full tubs out , you see ? that 's how they used to work it . |
| 6 | That 's how they used to count them up . |
| 7 | Er yes a lot of folk went out that way with their ponies er in fact that 's how they used to take the men when any Glen Shee person died in Glen Ayloch they took them out that way to the kirk here in Glen Shee kirk . |
| 8 | That 's how they used to work around all the time . |
| 9 | If , if one turned up with a dirty one they have to buy the beer that 's how they used to be . |
| 10 | Farm yes , that 's how they used to do it . |
| 11 | But that 's how they used to know . |
| 12 | And the following month they drop you , that 's how they used to do it |
| 13 | Talk about I reckon that , er Evelyn 's niece said er I said that 's how they used to dress boys , I said ho she said why I said probably |
| 14 | and the next night he 'll be kipping and the other one I 'll be working and that 's how they used to go on and it eventually , that 's why it was ten English worker 's to one Japanese because of that reason |
| 15 | That 's how they used to do it Ken |
| 16 | I think it 's how they used to speak in the twentieth century . |
| 17 | Erm that 's how we used to work that is . |
| 18 | And ev every time you want any potatoes you go and open the clamp or the pit or whatever it was called and take some out and seal it up again and that 's how we used to store them . |
| 19 | That 's how we used to catch the fish like that . |
| 20 | so then they 'd be about three pound or four pound in pocket and that 's how they , that 's how we used to help one another but once they get one rope ashore they could do it , the job see but of course there 's no boatmen today now , they call theirself boatmen but there ai n't one of the buggers going in a boat , I do n't suppose they could row a boat now . |
| 21 | And er that 's how we used to fix everything in like that you see . |
| 22 | That 's how we used to do it . |
| 23 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 24 | And erm that 's how it used to be so o obviously you had to pay like that but er I can remember the the Coop coming to . |
| 25 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 26 | That 's how it used to be years ago . |
| 27 | That 's how it used to be though |
| 28 | That 's how he used to talk . |
| 29 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 30 | Can you just get your girls to wear their hats on each layer and we 'll have your potato , the , you know , that 's how you used to get the Marks , get their Marks and Spencers account . |