Example sentences of "well [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 2 | Used to go down , well I used to be down every night , rubbing the salt in this , to make the bacon and I had a smokehouse down the yard where I used to smoke the bacon . |
| 3 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 4 | Well you used to be as cute as they were , you used to watch fingers , you did n't get them rattled . |
| 5 | Well you used to be able to book up a over a year in advance . |
| 6 | Well they used to be like er , used t as you used to braid your hair , they 'd braid a bit o rope and they 'd , they 'd make a sole out of that . |
| 7 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 8 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 9 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 10 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 11 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 12 | Right up to the , right over , well it used to be er start two fields off . |
| 13 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 14 | Well it used to be , that 's where the , that 's where the used to be . |
| 15 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 16 | Well it used to be a coaching inn did n't it ? |
| 17 | Well it used to be slang . |
| 18 | And I said , well it used to be |
| 19 | well he used to be right out here Frank did n't he ? |
| 20 | Well he used to be he owns the other factory now . |