Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [was/were] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things that I used to do was train and I know the feeling , I know the excitement , I know the adrenalin that pumps round the body , when you go in for the kill . |
| 2 | Yeah oh we loved all the gold furniture and , that 's all we used to do was walk round looking at furniture and things |
| 3 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
| 4 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 5 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |