Example sentences of "used to have [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you used to have all all the cleaning to do as well then ? |
| 2 | Her father , Ralph Dent , a somewhat excitable fellow , was a pal of Uncle 's and they used to have many animated discussions about different aspects of religion . |
| 3 | Through our interpreter , Christine , he said , ‘ I used to have many more mementoes from my naval career , but the British ’ — he seemed to speak not of us but of some distant tribe — ‘ looted them . ’ |
| 4 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 5 | Well you used to have some good effective carts there . |
| 6 | They used to have some nice nighties and |
| 7 | I used to have some white friends at school but they fell away . |
| 8 | or and then we used to have some gorgeous lamps that er we used to get in Chelsea that it was fasten on the wall and the lamp would come over on the shade , down and completely change , do you remember that ? |
| 9 | We used to , we used to , we used to have some lovely card nights , he never plays cards , we , we have a game of Trivial Pursuit when we go to Spain he 'll join |
| 10 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 11 | Er I know er perhaps I was er civil or obedient or whatever , I do n't know but er I I they u they used to have this this collection for the for supposedly for carrying the water , I do n't know . |
| 12 | ‘ We used to have these games , like we used to have this big trunk , and we used to call that ‘ the dream machine ’ and we used to get all things like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs coming down a conveyer belt , lasers , spaceships , everything . ’ |
| 13 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | Anyway then as I say they used to have these this back street effort and if you do it yourself you could do it with erm the enema syringe . |
| 15 | And the er if you did n't have your rubber soles which er a lot of people did n't really like , I think most people thought they were a bit effeminate , most men did anyway , and they used to have these little metal tips put on , you see , or a metal sort of cross section across the heel , that was to save your your shoes again . |