Example sentences of "we used have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We used to have a shop in this block which sold leads , collars , blankets , and so on , to anybody who took a rescued dog from us for rehoming . |
| 2 | When The Chameleons were going we used to have a riot . ’ |
| 3 | We used to have a good long walk somewhere in the Dales every weekend . |
| 4 | We used to have a lovely ‘ do ’ in the summer . |
| 5 | We used to have a lot of good nights like that and this was up there among the best . |
| 6 | We used to have a clock and the teacher used to turn its hands round and say , ‘ Now what time is it ? ’ |
| 7 | We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch , just under my bedroom window . |
| 8 | We used to have a showcase at school with just my boxing trophies in it . |
| 9 | Remember we used to have a prisoner group did n't we , when I first came so that the |
| 10 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 11 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 12 | We 've got an emergency exit where we used to have a roof . |
| 13 | There used to be rubbish dumps and mud and all that and we used to have a laugh there , you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | You , erm , I use buses and cars and I use a bike as well , er , er I think that , we used to have a car and I stopped using it , I used it , we had it when the kids were small and I found it really good for getting them around and it really was necessary to young mothers but their big now and I do n't have to chauffeur . |
| 15 | We used to have a bath once a week . |
| 16 | And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding . |
| 17 | We used to have a pick , er er that was a blade that had a slot in it and you had a pick shaft with a box and er a an iron box on the top . |
| 18 | Oh we used to hole underneath the coal and er and then er Oh oh we used to have a ringer That was a long steel ringer that you could put behind the slines in the slines and lever the coal off you see ? |
| 19 | Back you 'd go then to the We used to have a a a a machine then , an electric box affair , that used to put your lamp in , it would set your wick at a certain angle that there wo made a spark and when you 'd close this up , it caused a spark that would light your wick again you see ? |
| 20 | But erm we used to have a little shed , a little hut in the pit yard , where we used to go and pay our dues , every week |
| 21 | And er the er we used to have a piece of wood , a small piece of wood that was shaped er like a sort of almost like torpedo at both ends . |
| 22 | We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch . |
| 23 | And we used to have a box lamp . |
| 24 | We used to have a a dosser here . |
| 25 | But we certainly did some good work in the education because I think that we erm we used to , you know , of course we 'd , we 'd got used to use our auxiliaries naturally and erm we used to have a big conc a big er concert once a year in the town hall and er we would involve all the auxiliaries you know erm and of course we used to always erm fell a bit flat , the International Day which is July , the first Ju Saturday in July is International Day , Co-operative International , and we have always , the Guilds have worked very closely with the International Day . |
| 26 | And we used to go to town , we used to have really good , good er good day erm we used to have a procession and erm local , course local dignitaries used to come er , I I 've got a , one or two pictures in my scrapbook where erm it , I was asking , telling Jean she would have to look up er when we did begin trendsetters . |
| 27 | Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up , but I ca n't see them going , whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the , we used to have a fete and it was a politically , I ca n't remember exactly what it would be called , but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they 'd always got their rosettes on . |
| 28 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 29 | Aye , we went on the train to Dunfermline and we used to have a lot of trips . |
| 30 | Aye , we used to have a works magazine . |