Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I used to do work for customer down the garage there he used to have two cars to hire and I drove one in my spare time . |
| 2 | But I used to enjoy speed quite a lot , y'know , but never , I never used it intravenously . |
| 3 | And , and you think to yourself oh we 've seen everything , but I used to get pleasure in taking somebody to the potteries because I knew they had n't seen it and it would be like ooh , when they got there , you could see the shock , the surprise in their eyes when they went in there |
| 4 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 5 | But you ought to let Dawn know . |
| 6 | I know , but , but you used to have mid-morning snack |
| 7 | Yes , but they used to say cigar smoking 's not as bad as cigarette smoking . |
| 8 | Well , they did do it , but they used to recharge residents for unadopted sewers . |
| 9 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |