Example sentences of "and we [modal v] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies concerned I think were very pleased er , erm , I do I think it 's a very good idea , erm , to give a wife 's medal and er , with all the medals , and we ought to provide money for them the amount of waiting about they have to do |
| 2 | And we used to arrange football teams , cricket teams , during the before you went into school , playtime and very often when you came out of school . |
| 3 | I was thinking it might , seriously , and we used to say hands up all those who have n't seen the sea ? |
| 4 | And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away . |
| 5 | And there used to be like a big bobbin there and you to and they used to go like that and chuck it up and try and catch it you know , and And we used to play shuttlecock and battledore . |
| 6 | And we used to follow serials up in the er on Saturday afternoons you know . |
| 7 | They had whalebone in these stays and we used to cut pieces about half an inch long and in the daytime , I used to make a bag full and put them in between the doors and I 'd go round the first time and put them in and when I went round later , if that whalebone was missing , I 'd make enquiries . |
| 8 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 9 | Used to do it down there and we used to get stones that blew up and poinged everywhere ! |
| 10 | And we used to throw books at them . |
| 11 | And we used to have skittles , and what you 'd got to do , for skittles you got to throw to knock them down , do you see ? |
| 12 | And we used to have school clothes just piled up there . |
| 13 | and we used to have March |
| 14 | milk them and make erm make the buttermilk and we used to have buttermilk and potatoes in a basin mixed up and |
| 15 | Yeah and we used to spray water over them . |
| 16 | And we used to meet Tuesday . |
| 17 | Cos we used to have support so many cots in the children 's hospital , and we used to run concerts . |
| 18 | They got no coolers or anything like that , fridges , and nothing of that you know , and er , you 'd got a , we used to fetch it in the morning and we used to supply Massey 's Lavender 's in and two other , two or three other little places . |