Example sentences of "we used [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley had the saw running — we used to sell a few logs in them days — when all of a sudden he hears an explosion and thinks somebody 's having a go at his precious Lagonda . |
| 2 | We used to sell a few of them . |
| 3 | yes , any colour you can think of , I mean erm , blue I think is one of the worse , but thinking of lampshades we used to sell a lot of er lampshades for putting on table lamps er and erm , we 'd have just about every colour and somebody would come along and say well erm have n't you got one in purple and of course I 'd refrain from saying thank god no I have n't |
| 4 | but , we , oh we used to sell a lot of floor standard |
| 5 | We used to sell a lot of pig 's fry on Tuesday morning |
| 6 | Then as we got older , about 16 or 17 , we used to give a couple of bob at the end of the week to keep all our shoes . |
| 7 | We used to use a sort of doily to go round them , but now you can get washable plastic lace by the yard , which lasts much better . |
| 8 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 9 | That all , that 's all for the grain and then of course we used to import a lot at locust . |
| 10 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 11 | And then erm they eggs would be in this incubator for about a week and then they used to arrange coops for them to go out do you see , we used to fence a field below the mansion , , in the field there , because there was a good in enclosure right round the two drives and then there were shelter you see . |
| 12 | When we grew climbing beans , we used to put a hedgehog or two overnight in the tunnel , but by morning they had always performed a Houdini . |
| 13 | My father , six kids on a Friday night , we used to put a bucket of water on the hot sink , on the old gas stove and my father used to bath us six kids in front of the fire . |
| 14 | When we were kill-pricking we used to put a sack down on the floor and lie on our bellies using a bodkin to clear holes . |
| 15 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 16 | We used to do a lot of testing with Precisions but we found we just could n't hear the differences between different strings ; Music Mans seem to almost accentuate the differences , which is what we want . |
| 17 | Mosquito net mending you know we used to do a lot in Nottingham . |
| 18 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 19 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 20 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 21 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 22 | These orange tops , we used to do a dance to Vandervalk . |
| 23 | And the he sent one of my lads we used to do a lot in the area for him , and obviously he ca n't afford to spend too much so h we sent one man in the little van to get this pool table from a working man 's club in New in er Nottingham . |
| 24 | As kids , we used to spend a month in the hills during the summer , ’ he informed her as he worked . |
| 25 | We used to see a lot of shepherds and flocks of sheep |
| 26 | So we used to take a big old transistor with us and put it on the back shelf . |
| 27 | We used to take a basket and trudge over a mile to a huge horse chestnut tree that grew just past Petersfinger on the Southampton Road , its branches stretching right across from side to side . |
| 28 | ‘ But we used to take a lot o' pride in the hay , and it was all trussed up with — good tradesmen trussed it up , you know . |
| 29 | We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off |
| 30 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |