Example sentences of "how they used [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was a lot , lot had it er I do n't know how they used to go on really er I know some somebody in a , a movement called Rachobites er what were the other one ? |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | That 's how they used to live there , at them times . |
| 4 | You know how they used to do a lot of weaving , they do n't do so much now . |
| 5 | Farm yes , that 's how they used to do it . |
| 6 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |
| 7 | And the following month they drop you , that 's how they used to do it |
| 8 | and er , I I saw Chris quite a lot , then , but I mean , they 're not living how they used to do , I mean , they they were always boozing and that , |
| 9 | That 's how they used to do it Ken |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm tt this is supposedly how they used to teach their kids how to count . |
| 13 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 14 | how they used to talk . |
| 15 | She explained how they used to steal food , and how hard it was when she came to the Hogans , her first job , to realise she did n't have to take any stray biscuit or a fistful of sugar and put it into her apron . |
| 16 | . 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 . |
| 17 | I think it 's how they used to speak in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Remember how they used to feel as though they were the size of grapefruit ? ’ |
| 19 | That was how they used to insult someone who had a and untidy load you know . |
| 20 | That 's how they used to count them up . |
| 21 | But that 's how they used to know . |
| 22 | Oh yes , it was marvellous , that 's how they used to make it , in those days . |
| 23 | But erm er and , and she said erm you know the little , we were talking about the little corner shop and how they used to keep open all hours . |
| 24 | And take the full tubs out , you see ? that 's how they used to work it . |
| 25 | That 's how they used to work around all the time . |