Example sentences of "they used to put " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 2 | And when I come back , she had the poker in the fire : they used to put it into the stout . ’ |
| 3 | It 's like something out of that rubbish they used to put on after Grandstand . ’ |
| 4 | I think some people they used to put a , I think some used a little sponge and put something on but I did n't . |
| 5 | I know they used to put bark in their inside , , , that 's right . |
| 6 | And how they used to They used to put them on like a You know what these two-wheeled barrows like they put the sacks on , do n't you ? |
| 7 | And that sort of stuff used to go to America , because in er we had quite a big American market in those days because they did n't wash curtains in America , they used to put them up until they dar until they dropped down and then put new curtains up , you see ? |
| 8 | But we had some fantastic concerts , we had a stage at the end of the assembly hall , and they used to put on this erm concert for us , singing , dancing and the piano , I remember that very well , the piano . |
| 9 | And then they used to put this er these er wafters on you see to dry . |
| 10 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |
| 11 | Was there ever a custom mentioned to you whereby they used to put a cairn down ? |
| 12 | He started as a day person , and was in all these big spectacular musical shows they used to put on . |
| 13 | That used to be with er a piece of net in and across the top used to have two piece of wire , one way , and two piece the other and you catch a crab open the crab open and they used to put the crab between there and the whelks used to feed on the crab and then when you pulled it out , they all went to the bottom of the net . |
| 14 | The Cat House well that 's at , the Cat House , that 's wher that 's where the house used to be , where in er time erm , that 's where they used to put a cat in the window for the smokers . |
| 15 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 16 | A common user was er , just an open truck with two doors one each side and they used to put a tarpaulin over the top . |
| 17 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 18 | They use t they used to put th the band round the bottom of the wooden shoe |
| 19 | Wooden pegs in your sole , they used to drill 'em and they used to put wooden , and them wooden pegs would n they 'd never come out , cos if you put nails in , the nails would rust . |
| 20 | That was the mud , cos they used to put so much sewage into the river |
| 21 | And then after that when the ship was finished , then they used to sort that all out , the timber , different sizes , then y and then or were there , their own people to stack the timber and when they stacked it , they stacked it and they used to put splines between each layer of timber and that was to season the timber . |
| 22 | The , they used to put a conductor on for peak time and then about nine o'clock the rear door was closed and the driver took over issuing tickets , taking money and then perhaps the conductor would come on from about twelve or two and then again , perhaps from half past four till half past six . |
| 23 | Then they used to put a thick layer round the sides to start with , then they would fill in the middle and keep that always stronger so that each layer er it curved . |
| 24 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 25 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 26 | They used to put traps down . |
| 27 | And when they picked us out they used to put the rubber on the ground pick the dirt out of their feet and put it into their manger , not throw it away , put it into their manger because horses love to lick mud . |
| 28 | ‘ The one whose tomb they used to put the arms in . ’ |
| 29 | what 's changed is that they in in the early days we used to get the offcuts and they they were ideally they used to put those through a hogger which is a thing that breaks it down and it 's these it 's worktops |
| 30 | And then what they used to put with that on each of the machines that have dust extract system . |