Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front view clearly shows the tentacles — not as stiff as bristles ; the suckermouth ; and the rasping teeth used to grind away at vegetation and algae . |
| 2 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 3 | erm we did n't have a holiday for that but we used , when it was Willenhall er our mums knew that we should be like going home and we used to go straight from work to the Wakes you see , which was a , it was really a good wake then but then you 'd got to walk home . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to go everywhere by bus or tube , but my son Maurice — do you know my son Maurice ? , |
| 5 | And er he used to go there for meat but he used to buy two lots , one for his o his own place and one for the farm he had you see . |
| 6 | I used to go there with Nurse Cobretti . |
| 7 | People used to come here at night at harvest festival time and pray and dance . |
| 8 | The ancient tribes used to come here by boat , led by their leader the Fisher King , to worship on the Tor . |
| 9 | They used to come there with timber that time o' day ; owd Norwegians . |
| 10 | I used to come here for weekends and I used to come home at weekend and holiday time . |
| 11 | And every time he c used to come home on leave she used to cry , she did n't know him in uniform till he till he put his own clothes on . |
| 12 | We used to come home after evening shift , about 1.30 a.m. , to find two sets of false teeth in tumblers on the living-room table . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I used to look forward to commentary on a Sat. afternoon , but it seems such a tie as Ipswich at home can not even produce a goal never mind a win . |
| 15 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 16 | I used to run away from home — could n't tell anyone what was happening and never did . ’ |
| 17 | And of course as many of you will know , the railway line er used to run just in front , here . |
| 18 | ‘ And they say they still call themselves ‘ Pelliti ’ because they used to dress only in goat and sheep skins . ’ |
| 19 | The problem of jet-set pests in aircraft is reflected in other forms of transport ; container lorries are now carrying many of the same exotic infestations that previously used to arrive only by ship . |
| 20 | One thing that puzzled me as a boy was Mrs. Farrer 's hair — it used to change overnight from snow white to jet black and a few days later it was white again . |