Example sentences of "and 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 |