Example sentences of "[coord] you used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you used to stand your saucepans on there to boil . |
| 2 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 3 | ‘ And you used to maintain at school that women should be as free as men . |
| 4 | It had three big windows with iron doors and white walls and you used to go into the house up a flight of steps because there were shops underneath . |
| 5 | It was dirty and smelly and you used to get spiders and cockroaches : it makes me feel ‘ ergh ’ just to think about it . |
| 6 | During the day there was a factory and you used to have to make boxes , or if you were a cleaner you used to have to scrub the landings and everything , or there was a farm and you could work there — but you used to have to be really trusted to work on that . |
| 7 | And you used to have to fetch your water from the pump 's head , just round the corner , outside toilets , we used to have to go about fifty yards to use the toilet . |
| 8 | Then in back end they used to empty this crew yard and you used to have to handle all that with forks , muck forks , they used to call them , and that was big biggest fork and by God , they used to pull your heart out . |
| 9 | And you used to do that at a ten inch blade all day , up and down that field . |
| 10 | And you used to put eight to a stook , that was so it would dry out , you see ? |
| 11 | Cos there 's a way of putting hay on the cart and you used to have to start one lot in the corner , one lot in the other corner , another lot at the back , another lot at the back at the other side and then you 'd fill in your centre . |
| 12 | You used to have a special chopper for your mangles and it was like a big mincing machine , with a great big wheel on , and you used to fill it full of er mangles , or turnips and it used to come out like chips . |
| 13 | No such a thing as bales of straw , it was loose hay stacked , and you used to cut it with a big hay knife . |
| 14 | You 'd be , oh perhaps twenty or thirty of us , in these fields and you used to do so A length , what you call a length . |
| 15 | And then come and then wash your own cans out , and you used to carry them all through all round the village . |
| 16 | And you used to get up and light the copper fire , fill this old copper , which held about ten gallons , and then put plenty of stack o slack on it . |
| 17 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 18 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 19 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 20 | And you 'd put handkerchiefs and collars and that , and you used to have to starch the collars in those days . |
| 21 | Half a crown And you used to come away with a big piece of flat brisket and if he 's got any sausage left , or bits a of pork pies , he used to shove a bit of that in . |
| 22 | And you used to have that , that was your breakfast . |
| 23 | And you used to have a little ticket , with the days on , and they used to punch it with the old , you remember the old punching machines , do n't you ? |
| 24 | And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then . |
| 25 | And you used to put the pick blade into it and it was A piece cut out of it , th the blade you see ? |
| 26 | And you used to pay him I do n't know how mush it was a week now . |
| 27 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 28 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 29 | And the hot water system was a little boiler at the side of the fire as well and you used to have a ladle and take it out of the out of the er out of the boiler on the side . |
| 30 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |