Example sentences of "[no cls] [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh er I used to , about four or five board boards a day oh yeah . |
| 2 | I I was er I used to be a kitchen maid . |
| 3 | And then er I used to er be in the kitchen . |
| 4 | I rem I used to like Top of the Pops as a kid , we always used to settle down in front of the T V |
| 5 | But I think in fairness to erm complete the picture shall we say , I really think we ought to er we ought to be looking at it . |
| 6 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 7 | And er we used to all do that and then in the week in the weekday |
| 8 | And er we used to run Well most of our bearings , actually er white metal bearings and machine them afterwards . |
| 9 | And of course er we used to if we were busy , we used to tell they girls , I say , Look , I said , you can talk any anytime you like . |
| 10 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 11 | We got another job , we we often get erm er we used to g often get jobs from the Yorkshire Museum . |
| 12 | Well there was all sorts , whatever was on the go , there was raspberry jam that my mo we used to later years my father grew raspberries and that sort of thing , blackcurrant jam , my mother made all sorts of things like that . |
| 13 | You see , and it 's er it er it 's this j this background you see which er er er convinced people that er they ought to you know help the Spanish people in a real , serious , and er and personal capacity . |
| 14 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 15 | And it was er They used to great pride in their in their er stacks because they had to make them as neat as they could and er well built , so that if the So that w that was good for the To keep the the wind keep them dry . |
| 16 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |
| 17 | And er they used to the cows used to calf you know |
| 18 | and er they used to ma er she made it there . |
| 19 | The they used to the Non-conformists whether or not I could n't speak for the Church of England but er there 'd be a lot go you know i in the evening there 'd be several hundred at every one of these places , and there was , there 'd be , ooh four or five Non=conformist places in in . |
| 20 | And the they used to when they would speak Orcadian among their their pals and then when they when they were playing games all the kids the Orcadian ones whether they were Orcadian or not would adopt this American drawl and they all spoke like that . |
| 21 | I suppose to be technical it ought to be the er it ought to be referred to as the Franco- German war . |
| 22 | And er it used to be quite event when you saw all the queue and , and er of course with Walsall Wood you 've got the room over the shop where the Guild room was and a rest room I think for the staff . |
| 23 | and er he used to , he had a contract with some big potato firm and he used to buy all the , the fertilizer bags in the locality and he used to bring them there to the end of the road and he used to wash them in the burn . |
| 24 | And er he used to be he he mother used to make make some tea for him and warm tea in a bottle in a glass bottle you know . |
| 25 | a smallish guy , er , sandy , sandy hair cut short , very stocky , er he used to be up at , he used to be at Glenmore Lodge |
| 26 | I mean he er he used to as regular as clock work but I say , and I have had those times when he comes four o'clock- ish even in the afternoon . |
| 27 | Erm I remem erm y you used to erm erm take , have to take exams and if you passed the exams you could go to Alma Green Secondary School . |
| 28 | and th we used to be visited by some of their people |
| 29 | That was long afore my day but th they used to always come to curtain market , aha . |
| 30 | Yeah , th he used to be he used to be a watchmaker or clock er mender , watcher whatever you call it ! |