Example sentences of "[coord] they used to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was downstairs and they used to be up upstairs was the man what cut all the stuff up , do you see ? |
| 2 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 3 | And they used to be like ham . |
| 4 | Yeah , they would , let the bake it we used to Danish foods and cos we used to have a Danish er , we used to have erm Polish ship come in one week and an English ship come in the next week and the , the bacon was just pigs were all killed , wrapped in sacking and tied with string , and they used to be laid in the hold like that . |
| 5 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
| 6 | I think that 's where they got the idea and they used to be all leather , thigh boots . |
| 7 | And I used to carry out their meals to the men , and they used to be eating out in the field then . |
| 8 | And they used to be coming erm about the end of September through the beginning of November , they used to come to the beach from different directions , during that time . |
| 9 | w er only sailing boats and they used to be anchored here years ago , down on the beach there . |
| 10 | and they used to be caravan down on Lyme by the park and |
| 11 | And I and I do n't know whether they still have the wooden lockers now but they used to be , have to be all scrubbed out every week . |
| 12 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 13 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 14 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 15 | no so it was saying how times have changed , but they used to be very , very stuck up and it showed some of the early programmes and how people used to talk , oh so frightfully posh and so frightfully gorgeous and the words , and , it 's rather pleasant is n't it , really rather nice |