Example sentences of "[noun] there used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then on the other side there used to be what they called the market . |
| 2 | There is no longer the mass interest in football there used to be . |
| 3 | The only thing is another old place that in was Auchentipple There used to be a chapel there and it was called the Hunt Chapel , but it 's just a hunt now . |
| 4 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 5 | And er then er then at the at bottom there used to be er a clothes shop . |
| 6 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 7 | Winkles down at Finn Mill there used to be sm well thousands , millions of them , winkles and the ships used to come round from the Blackwater from Colchester area , come round , stay round the Finn Mill about a fortnight and they used to have what they call a well in their boat and they used to have fill up little sacks like a sand bag of winkles and take them round there and cultivate them . |
| 8 | In that peat there used to be deer 's teeth , everything , parts of the jaw , horns , what we were dredging up , then we went further down to erm Downham Reach , that 's just before the Cattoes and we were dredging all green clay . |
| 9 | At Hawkshead there used to be a famous market but after the invention of spinning machinery its importance declined . |
| 10 | Before the rain there used to be the river running next to a green and a road next to that . |
| 11 | In the UK there used to be two taxes that tax wealth per se rather than the income that is derived from wealth . |
| 12 | At the end of the reservoir dam there used to be a place called Blackton House which was rather crowded . |
| 13 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 14 | Another night there used to be one , Old Bob , used to do bit of droving . |
| 15 | And then er where the facing the ice rink there used to be a pub called the cricketers , well that 's still there . |
| 16 | The teeth there used to be a man come down about once every three months and er where he came from I do n't know . |
| 17 | At that time , I mean , I have known when my , when I was a dredger and they used t we used to clean the bottom , I have known er mussels on the bottom , used to feed on , be on the side of the ship , good mussels , but of course there used to be cockles , winkles . |
| 18 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
| 19 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 20 | In ancient times , about the 12th century , on these wooded slopes there used to be a watchtower , which later developed into a kind of fortified residence . |
| 21 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 22 | Well along Broadmarsh there used to be er a lodging house there . |
| 23 | It was his father , Colin Cauldhame , who got the cordite from the ship-breaking yard there used to be down the coast . |
| 24 | There was a a lot of shops on and then as across the road there used to be a Road and there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 25 | There 's quite a lot there used to be quite a contingent worked in ships and of course it 's all stain work and just sprayed now . |
| 26 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 27 | And then you know where the foun the water fountain was where the marsh is , there used to every weekend there used to be a er a chip and fish stall there w and hot peas . |
| 28 | Oh there used to be a lot of s er entertainment coming round the streets there used to be er gentlemen as coming round singing . |
| 29 | Well they usually out out of the er hydrant on the quay cos the hydrant on the quay there used to be a water main a the water main used to go along there and we used to put so much water into the boat and now we come down and used to pump that out and then go back after some more . |
| 30 | And at that particular time there used to be er what do you call it , the fashion was mantlepieces . |