Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] used [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Some of the women were there so long I used to call them aunty . " |
| 2 | Yes , somehow they used to accommodate them but |
| 3 | Of course we did n't know them like we used to wear them . |
| 4 | I in fact , half the rubber you , cos yo unless you order them and buy them like we used to buy them in some big packets but erm , you buy them in a shop , you buy them and they 've got teatles right across the middle have n't they ? |
| 5 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 6 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 7 | well we used to call them tramps . |
| 8 | Well we used to have them in Middle House . |
| 9 | It all depends on the scrap merchant , like they used to send a lot of scrap iron erm from Ipswich to Germany just before the war , well they used to send they reckon they send to Danzig |
| 10 | And I sometimes I used to fry them first . |
| 11 | That was how I used to treat them . |
| 12 | And then the the the store cattle they were in big open yards during the nights and then you used to let them out and eat these off er a grass field in Win i in in in in the daytime . |
| 13 | Then you used to chop them down this way with a cleaver . |
| 14 | And then we used to call them because that 's where we were feeding them do you see . |
| 15 | And then we used to feed them on these rakings there do you see . |
| 16 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 17 | Yeah , no it 's a play get the jobs done and then we used to deliver them back again up the street and one of us used to go in , I used to divert to Derby |
| 18 | So it 's er , how we used to marry them up was erm two long buses as we called would take ten men to do five duties . |
| 19 | And ev every time you want any potatoes you go and open the clamp or the pit or whatever it was called and take some out and seal it up again and that 's how we used to store them . |
| 20 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 21 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 22 | Like there were n't any old boys on there they used to wash 'em out you know and clean them up then smoke 'em . |
| 23 | That 's how they used to count them up . |
| 24 | So then he used to segregate them : they go over there , and they go over there . |
| 25 | box are in the toilet with a paper bag in there 's a , where I used to put them and I 've had a fair look but not sort of |
| 26 | wh where we used to mark 'em . |
| 27 | A customer from somewhere in England , where they used to hunt them do you see . |
| 28 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |