Example sentences of "we used " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to have lots of friends but they all seem to have gone now . ’ |
| 2 | Believing sentences and slotting the information that they convey into our knowledge base ( for instance , what we used to think about the referent of she ) is another story . |
| 3 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 4 | That we used to walk home from school at one p.m. in the burning sun and play barefoot in grass that was dry and scratched our calves . |
| 5 | ‘ We used to have to promise to do things to get elected , and now we have to promise not to . ’ |
| 6 | And I went to church every Sunday where we used to have missionaries who would come and tell tales about how they built churches in jungle clearings with lions gnawing at their legs . ’ |
| 7 | We used to chat a lot as we rested during the frequent route marches out of camp at Southampton . |
| 8 | The audiences of working men who acclaimed Joseph Chamberiain were not just afraid for their jobs , though the fear of German competition was real enough — the three men , in a speech of Chamberlain 's , unloading trucks containing German wire , who remarked ‘ this is rather hard : we used to make this ’ . |
| 9 | Before 1948 we used to pretend that all such countries were just copies of the United Kingdom , except that , in place of the monarch , they had a Governor-General , who , we assured ourselves and them , represented the monarch . |
| 10 | We noticed that quite often if people ate the sandwich they left the cake , or vice versa , so when we used to collect the trays from them we would take whatever was left . |
| 11 | It was Christmas time , and we used to give them oranges and sweets . |
| 12 | So we used to sit and listen and try to work out what was going on , which gave the Lone Ranger even more mystery . |
| 13 | We used to play football in the streets with the lead singer of The Skatalites — when we could entice him out . |
| 14 | So we used to take a big old transistor with us and put it on the back shelf . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you remember when we used to go with Daddy in the boat on Saturdays ? ’ |
| 16 | We used to have them real often at school . |
| 17 | We used to play together real well — that 's what Mrs Seaton said . |
| 18 | We used to sing this one at school . |
| 19 | There 's prezzies all wrapped up under the tree , just like we used to have when I lived with Annie and Mum and Dad . |
| 20 | Up to last year we used to collect used postage stamps and then when our dear friend Father Burbage left for Zambia we had to abandon it because we had no idea where they were sent to . |
| 21 | We used to cook potatoes and sausages in hot ashes after the fire had burnt down . |
| 22 | George Underwood : ‘ I remember how we used to hang around on Saturday listening to records . |
| 23 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 24 | When we went to gigs David used to travel in Ralph Horton 's car and we used to have to go in the old ambulance which replaced the old Atlas van . |
| 25 | We used to do the live show that was never broadcast — it was just the bit after all the other stars have been on stage and mimed to their records for the audience . |
| 26 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 27 | producer Mike Vernon , Gus Dudgeon , blah , blah , and this weird list of instruments like bass flute , contra bassoon , bass drum , etc and I thought this was very peculiar , but it was the early days of the Deram label and we used to do some pretty odd sessions . |
| 28 | We used to like to go to clubs and I did n't like going by myself and Calvin was a great escort . |
| 29 | We used to socialize together and they used my garden as their flat did n't have one . |
| 30 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |