Example sentences of "[adv] there used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there used to be er erm a lot of hot cross er buns hanging down . |
| 2 | Perhaps there used to be and I lost it . |
| 3 | Yeah , that girl was saying , apparently there used to be glass in front of that there there used to be a glass cabinet attached to the wall there . |
| 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 | You never get any good political meetings now there used to be |
| 6 | Well there used to be that 's right , with you John , talking about college group just about that time . |
| 7 | Well there used to be one . |
| 8 | Well there used to be a dressing rooms on erm on Road there . |
| 9 | Well there used to be a lot of shops there . |
| 10 | Well there used to be a house there . |
| 11 | I think well there used to be three or four picture houses in the town , there 's only one now . |
| 12 | Well there used to be just me but then they 've employed another one and we were so fed up with being on nights that we said look , I 'm afraid we 've had enough of this , you know so she I said to her how about you allocate us each to a ward you see |
| 13 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 14 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 15 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well all that and then there used to be what they used call er net mending but my mother used to do that . |
| 19 | Well then there used to be frames Ooh er as long as a street the room used to be . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And then then there used to be on Boulevard . |
| 22 | And then there used to be erm Mrs her name was , used to keep her little shop at bottom of the yard . |
| 23 | And then there used to be the Hippodrome and the Empire . |
| 24 | And er and then there used to be er |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And then there used to be talking about and er if you passed by them . |
| 28 | There was Pat , he swept chimleys , er and then there used to be an old fellow come , he used to mend , mend dishes you ken , what you call a china faker . |
| 29 | And then there used to be old Tom and Mary . |
| 30 | Oh and then there used to be another old fellow come here , they called him . |