Example sentences of "and [adv] there [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 2 | Oh we used to er there used to be er er two rooms downstairs and then there used to be what you used to call er the attic they used to call them in them days . |
| 3 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 4 | Well all that and then there used to be what they used call er net mending but my mother used to do that . |
| 5 | Well and then there used to be a stripper it 's a a long thing like that and there and er you 'd put it on . |
| 6 | And then there used to be erm Mrs her name was , used to keep her little shop at bottom of the yard . |
| 7 | And then there used to be the Hippodrome and the Empire . |
| 8 | And er and then there used to be er |
| 9 | They 're like that , and then they 've got a shuttlecock the shuttlecock used to er have er like a a cork thing and then there used to be feathers round . |
| 10 | Yes there used to be her son , and there used to be me , and there used to be a a girl name Edith right , and there used to be her sister , Ethel right , and then there used to be another young girl named Clara . |
| 11 | And then there used to be talking about and er if you passed by them . |
| 12 | There was Pat , he swept chimleys , er and then there used to be an old fellow come , he used to mend , mend dishes you ken , what you call a china faker . |
| 13 | And then there used to be old Tom and Mary . |
| 14 | Oh and then there used to be another old fellow come here , they called him . |
| 15 | But the the regular men were getting more money than but er And then there used to be men down there , storing the slate , regular men on the outside , my father was one of them . |