Example sentences of "that used [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A a as I say er i it takes a bit of getting used to when you 're just making a meal for yourself , you know what I mean you 're you 're that used to carry 'em about and picking after 'em and |
| 2 | The old senior-secondary and junior-secondary divide will be re-established in Scotland , like the old grammar-secondary modern divide that used to exist in England and Wales . |
| 3 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 4 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 5 | Th th when the house was built it was painted and I think that used to last it 's lifetime . |
| 6 | Gone was the voice that used to say ‘ Nice Man , good Man , come to give Woil food ! ’ |
| 7 | it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know . |
| 8 | ‘ Christ that used to give me the shits , ’ said the New Zealander . |
| 9 | Oh yes , yes , yes but erm on the radio prog programme I heard someone say there was every street corner these women but they were n't , I do n't think there was , I think it was you know , there were a lot of women that used to do it illegal . |
| 10 | And er well perhaps there was one that used to do anything cos she was perhaps too young . |
| 11 | er er er would n't be used , because er he was never heard he was never he was heard , he was never heard , erm similar to this Lord Haw-Haw , you know that used to do the broadcasting er from from Nazi Germany to er to Britain , particularly to England . |
| 12 | You know George , that used to do fridges ? |
| 13 | One of the fellows that used to do contract work |
| 14 | It is , after all , a short time since we accepted without question the assumption that used to underline all women 's lives ; that men had more rights than we did . |
| 15 | Remember back a few issues ( UX No 363 ) when Gain Technology , the multimedia start-up that used to call itself Cayenne Systems , was talking about giving the IBM/Apple joint venture a run for its money and persuading IBM to adopt its technology ? |
| 16 | Old friends of the Chesapeake , they noticed something alarming beneath the water : the submerged grasses that used to carpet the river 's bottom were disappearing . |
| 17 | What became Genesis was a group of songwriters that used to gather around the piano . |
| 18 | Back you 'd go then to the We used to have a a a a machine then , an electric box affair , that used to put your lamp in , it would set your wick at a certain angle that there wo made a spark and when you 'd close this up , it caused a spark that would light your wick again you see ? |
| 19 | But Soderstrom , introducing the songs set by set , was good company ; the recital hall at Blackheath , rescued from years of abuse by the government department that used to inhabit it , had a good sound and an airy Victorian grace ; and Roger Vignoles , the accompanist , was as clear and gifted as ever ; so the capacity audience wound up feeling happy , especially when treated to confident versions of Lehar 's Vilja Song or My Lips They Kiss So Hot . |
| 20 | She wished to know whether the descendants of the trout that used to inhabit the pond inhabited it now . |
| 21 | They say that there are going to be dust clouds issuing from this site comparable to the dust clouds that used to issue from the P F A lagoons at Brotherton . |
| 22 | Away from Herta 's childhood room , away from the angels on the walls that used to watch over her . |
| 23 | The notion that British spectators would be bored by a regular diet of ‘ continental ’ football ( whatever that means : ‘ patient ’ , I suppose ) once again appeared fatuous as play flowed from end to end without too much of the cynical tackling that used to ruin the Spanish game . |
| 24 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 25 | And another bloke that used to drink his own Number One . " |
| 26 | There 's quite a lot of them that used to drink that . |
| 27 | Somebody well it was Magnus Bruce that used to drive it . |
| 28 | she could n't understand how , she said oh she said and , and a couple of channels that used to drive her up the wall . |
| 29 | He smiles : ‘ I 've grown up a lot and I 'm now enjoying important fights that used to fill me with nerves . |
| 30 | Even taking into account a recent £200m order for another four chemical carriers to guarantee work for Kvaerner Govan 's 1,650 permanent workers to 1995 , the last commercial shipyard in Glasgow remains a shadow of the Scottish industry that used to employ 70,000 on the Clyde alone . |