Example sentences of "they used to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to be fed in the pen up there and they would n't be killed till Mondays . |
| 2 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 3 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 4 | They used to be called tea gowns many years ago . |
| 5 | They used to be called waghorns in Lancashire . |
| 6 | They used to be called blue-green algae because they appeared to be close relatives of the green algae that are common in ponds , but now that their very primitive character is recognised , they are referred to as cyanophytes or simply , blue-greens . |
| 7 | They used to be made at Mr King 's in Station Street . |
| 8 | They used to be made in the shape of Christ 's tombstone , and years ago , all bread baked on Good Friday was marked with a cross as a symbol of good luck . |
| 9 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But no doubt just sheer distaste of the actual typefaces used , which were the winkle-bag was the description they used to be given . |
| 12 | w er only sailing boats and they used to be anchored here years ago , down on the beach there . |
| 13 | THEY used to be considered dirty , slow , noisy and uncomfortable . |
| 14 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 15 | lay on for them and erm also of course erm , I know , people like erm Mr and Mr they used to be picked up by er , by some chaps in a jeep or Army truck . |
| 16 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 17 | They used to be fetched up when the channel was being dredged , and drift ashore . |
| 18 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They used to come home , the sh the show used to shut on a Friday at half past five and they 'd come by train then , years ago , they used to be loaded in London , Liverpool Street or one of the stations there , come down to Soham and we used to , they used to arrive here about er twelve o'clock time in the morning . |
| 21 | They used to be marketed jointly by Rover and a company called Brayman who own sixty percent of Rover 's American outfit . |