Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [vb mod] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 2 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 3 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 6 | And here I ought to perhaps make it clear that the circles I provided on the sheet which was distributed , allow for a density of twenty houses per hectare . |
| 7 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 10 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 11 | And then we used to be playing top , we 'd a top right round the village , see how far we could go . |
| 12 | And then we used to after that , we used to go out , every in the morning and at night , taking some feed out , to them wherever they were do you see . |
| 13 | Go there sometimes about four o'clock give them a feed out and then we used to I used to stay there in a small shelter there . |
| 14 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 15 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 16 | And then then after that , the overlooker what was there used to say , Well you you pull frame out so many pegs you see , and it used to pull out , stretch this here lace , and pull out and then they used to dowels at the bottom used to plug in to stop the frames from going back . |
| 17 | And then people used to er maybe wedding rings or sovereign used to pawn that and then they used to either they could n't afford to get it out , to , to redeem it so er the pawnbroker would sell it then , after a time . |
| 18 | from there and now course they got shipped out and then they used to be a ship as well , used to take it to sea called the |
| 19 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |
| 20 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 21 | Oh we used to er there used to be er er two rooms downstairs and then there used to be what you used to call er the attic they used to call them in them days . |
| 22 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 23 | Well all that and then there used to be what they used call er net mending but my mother used to do that . |
| 24 | Well and then there used to be a stripper it 's a a long thing like that and there and er you 'd put it on . |
| 25 | And then there used to be erm Mrs her name was , used to keep her little shop at bottom of the yard . |
| 26 | And then there used to be the Hippodrome and the Empire . |
| 27 | And er and then there used to be er |
| 28 | They 're like that , and then they 've got a shuttlecock the shuttlecock used to er have er like a a cork thing and then there used to be feathers round . |
| 29 | Yes there used to be her son , and there used to be me , and there used to be a a girl name Edith right , and there used to be her sister , Ethel right , and then there used to be another young girl named Clara . |
| 30 | And then there used to be talking about and er if you passed by them . |