Example sentences of "used to have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This computerised index replaced a card index system that used to have to be updated by hand by bureaux staff . |
| 2 | During the day there was a factory and you used to have to make boxes , or if you were a cleaner you used to have to scrub the landings and everything , or there was a farm and you could work there — but you used to have to be really trusted to work on that . |
| 3 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 4 | An and then we used to have to and there was no no such a thing as bales in those days , duckie . |
| 5 | And they used to let us come out of the pit at three quarter time , there were six of us , all of a size , strong as young bulls and er we used to have to i if the body was within less than a mile from the church , you see ? |
| 6 | And as I say you used to have to erm children used to hav well the elder children had to give a turn with the mangling . |
| 7 | Used to have to be very rather experienced in them days to do this here net mending . |
| 8 | Then thes they used a pole this er and you used to have to behind stripping all these off lace off the pins while these here ladies was folding this er net up . |
| 9 | Well in them days you used to have to er work for eight till six or anything like that you see same as when I was wo first went to work . |
| 10 | The meat used to have to be pressure cooked for four hours to make it tender enough to eat ! |
| 11 | They used to have to be brave , now they just have to hang around waiting for someone to press a button . |
| 12 | and then , then your metal you used to have to had n't you ? |
| 13 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 14 | Cos old Ken used to have to an old ar aluminium one did n't he ? |
| 15 | She had told me , quite sharply for her , to drop that silly name we used to have for him , the man of principle . |
| 16 | Thinking of , for example , those summer vacation sessions you used to have with the Berlin players in Saint-Moritz in the 1960s and '70s , I am sure one day people are going to be looking back to all this as some great Golden Age that has now gone for good . |
| 17 | what I used to have with Betty |
| 18 | It 's a little brown bottle like the ones they used to have at school . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't got a shepherd 's hut here , as I used to have at Norcombe , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to return to the nice friendly atmosphere we used to have at this club with Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in charge and chairman Albert Alexander , who left everyone to get on with their job . |
| 21 | But er I 'd two that I used to have on the wall at home I can remember . |
| 22 | The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years ! |
| 23 | And erm we used to have about six hundred in all there they say . |
| 24 | SERAFIN : Is n't it very similar to the kind of discussion people used to have about ethics ? |
| 25 | Which they used to have down those streets . |
| 26 | Cos we used to have like this minibus service back from the Guild |
| 27 | And I had a catalogue the other day from a , an environmental erm agency it was n't Greenpeace it was something like that that were ac actually now offering these soap savers that we used to have in the war to press your bits of soap into Magazines were full of tips for saving fuel . |
| 28 | Aye , well I mean the social activities you used to have in the old place , were th were those any better than over here ? |
| 29 | I like the I like the I like the old the old art we used to have in the olden days mind you I like everything that 's old er that 's why I like you Geoff cos you 're old . |
| 30 | no , about three month 's , just decided to run then the cafe on the corner to cof coffee cavern , well you , you can drop in have a , like you used to have in |