Example sentences of "[pers pn] be and [pron] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I was and I used to go , and the first place I went to , let me think , it was Dunoon . |
| 2 | She used to say , say , phone up and say she was and I used to say well where give me the address , just anything happens to us |
| 3 | See during the war we had , we had a lot of er minesweepers down here and they were all in these trawlers , fishing trawlers that 's all they were and they used to go minesweeping off the coast , from here to Yarmouth and then , and Yarmouth and Lowestoft they had theirs , they used to like meet and cos they used to be out four days minesweeping and in four days . |
| 4 | He knew where they were and he used to jolly well , |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |