Example sentences of "well i used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I used to ignore that ; I used to make a lot of noise in the street . |
| 2 | You know , when I used to take my parcels , well I used to say to him , How much would you give me if I come and work for you ? |
| 3 | Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business . |
| 4 | Well I used to go about everyday . |
| 5 | But there was a big door , well I used to get in the entry from , with an ordinary key , used to go up the b up the op big opening and open the big doors from the insides , you see what I mean , for the rest to come in . |
| 6 | Well I used to serve about I used to serve close on 200 . |
| 7 | Well I used to suffer with them . |
| 8 | Well I used to do , what you 're doing see , you 're in charge of loading the ship , see but they did , first of all they , they , we had er , we had a foreman stevedore , then we had , and then erm we had the stevedores and the dockers they went away on these courses , down to ones , they used to go to Southampton and some went to Hull , but when they came back , they called theirselves stevedores , so course our harbourmaster , he say that 's not right , they 're stevedores , well you got ta be all called foremen stevedores , so Captain come to me , he said , what are we gon na call you ? |
| 9 | Well I used to have me own office down at Cliff Quay . |
| 10 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 11 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 12 | And er this is what I do , Well I used to do jobs round here for a while or I 've chucked it up now aye . |
| 13 | Yeah , I attended , I used to run an A T C squad , well I used to run the two different ones in London , and A T C squadrons , and I must say I 've been invited to the last two open nights . |
| 14 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 15 | Used to go down , well I used to be down every night , rubbing the salt in this , to make the bacon and I had a smokehouse down the yard where I used to smoke the bacon . |
| 16 | Well I used to the grindstone was in the cart shed , you see , and er I used to turn the handle whilst he ground his knives down and then he 'd take them in the slaughterhouse , after he got them ground , and put them on this stone to get them smooth , to get a fine edge on the knife . |
| 17 | Well I used I used to be in the kitchen you know . |
| 18 | Well I used to go to that one . |
| 19 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 20 | Well I used to pay like thirty five , forty pound for my perms . |
| 21 | Well I used to do that . |
| 22 | Well I used to ride a motorbike a and my father had a Triumph motorbike because he bought I do n't why he , why he bought it and he was terrified of it cos it was very fierce ! |
| 23 | Yeah , well I used |
| 24 | He said well I used to work at I got it from . |
| 25 | Well I used to this was two ribs . |
| 26 | He says well I used to work in er er Doncaster |
| 27 | Yeah , well I used to , I used to when I used to go . |
| 28 | Well I used to believe that but me mum said they do n't really do that , and that was one of my great illusions completely shattered |
| 29 | Well I must admit , I have , I mean I do n't do well I used to make quite nice cakes , since I 've had this new cooker mine wo n't ri I mean they rise , there 's no doubt about that , they rise , but I can take them out , put them on a cooling rack and watch them deflate ! |
| 30 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |