Example sentences of "used to have [det] " in BNC.

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1 And you used to have that , that was your breakfast .
2 Gurdy used to have that , a teetotal fellow , a very good owd fellow .
3 They used to have that too but they do n't have that
4 In in the village and then we used to have that at dinnertime .
5 They used to have that in , in er when they put
6 Used to have that wi
7 The erratic London club used to have all the staying power of the latest King 's Road fad , as a flash of brilliance was swiftly followed by downright disaster .
8 ‘ For the work we used to do up there we used to have all the beer we could drink .
9 Used to have all kinds , you know o on the team .
10 She used to have all the water she liked after she got hot , cooled off , yeah .
11 Did you used to have all all the cleaning to do as well then ?
12 used to have all them er barn dances every .
13 ‘ You used to have many admirers , ’ the mother changed .
14 Through our interpreter , Christine , he said , ‘ I used to have many more mementoes from my naval career , but the British ’ — he seemed to speak not of us but of some distant tribe — ‘ looted them . ’
15 Her father , Ralph Dent , a somewhat excitable fellow , was a pal of Uncle 's and they used to have many animated discussions about different aspects of religion .
16 And erm so we started the Brownies and I could train them and we used to have such fun together , you know
17 Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all .
18 ‘ My Dad used to have some of these , ’ she said .
19 I used to have some white friends at school but they fell away .
20 And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out .
21 We used to have some fun with that .
22 . And we used to have er we used to have some donkeys , and we used to have to get those ticked .
23 ‘ It was hard work but you used to have some enjoyment out of yourself .
24 And there was er , he , he , used to have some fields up Wood Green as , as well that he turned the cattle into .
25 They used to have some had their own blacksmiths .
26 or and then we used to have some gorgeous lamps that er we used to get in Chelsea that it was fasten on the wall and the lamp would come over on the shade , down and completely change , do you remember that ?
27 Well all the way from , they used to come from and they used to have some sunbonnets on , I always remember they used to have the , I 'm not a dressmaker but you know a la they do n't like frills down the back that used to hang down the back and the I remember them coming round selling blocks of salt .
28 They used to have some sort of test on that .
29 We used to , we used to , we used to have some lovely card nights , he never plays cards , we , we have a game of Trivial Pursuit when we go to Spain he 'll join
30 You know we used to have some a while ago .
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