Example sentences of "[modal v] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 2 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 3 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 4 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 5 | Erm , er so of course there was always people coming to the house connected with the Co-op educational side , you know and erm I used to sort of you kn understand it all , mother was the treasurer and sometimes the secretary would come down to see her . |
| 6 | That , that 's her main , she used to sort of look after things and baby-sit for us in the evenings . |
| 7 | So of course we used to sort of try and get in in the nurses ' home through a ground floor window . |
| 8 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 9 | And we used to sort of arrange it when one was n't cooking the other one would be you know and this sort of thing . |
| 10 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |
| 11 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 12 | The back of there there used to be one or two people who used to have little outhouses where they used to sort of make things , and my grandfather up the Pleck , he was a good locksmith and he had his shop at the back of the house and he cou he could watch the Walsall races going on , which is now where the Road is , from his workshop before Street was put and any of those and he could stand in his workshop and watch the races . |
| 13 | you know I used to sort of bellow out |
| 14 | And I , I used to sort of sit in er put sit myself in my little erm bunk you know ? |
| 15 | Well , she used to sort of keep shop for him , she was deaf as a post ! |
| 16 | boy named Jason tha he 's a young man now but when and we used to have the sandwiches on the table and Jason always used to sort of take umpteen and po pile them up on his plate and |
| 17 | No the only thing that consumed me I was looking to see if there was anyway that material from the seat could be used to sort of target us for a mailing system or something like that |
| 18 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
| 19 | But Gerry did n't have confidence you see so he used to sort of rely on me to tell , but you will come to the conclusion that if I had would have said Gerry 's workmanship was absolutely superb ! |
| 20 | And he used to sort of be embarrassed about it . |
| 21 | I mean , I feel a bit , and he used to sort of denigrate it . |
| 22 | But he , he used to sort of say , oh do n't tell people , you know , he 'd think . |
| 23 | I think we ought to sort of |