Example sentences of "used [to-vb] it in the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee have also examined agriculture and the system of EEC and national supports used to bolster it in the UK 's LFA , to some degree comparing the situation with that in France and West Germany . |
2 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
3 | They got no coolers or anything like that , fridges , and nothing of that you know , and er , you 'd got a , we used to fetch it in the morning and we used to supply Massey 's Lavender 's in and two other , two or three other little places . |
4 | Time was when a priest used to put it in the parish mag if he intended being out of the parish for more than twenty-four hours . |
5 | When they give you it , they have to watch you swallow it , but I used to keep it in the back of my throat and save it up . |
6 | that telly was mine but I 've got a lovely picture when I used to have it in the kitchen . |
7 | Then you used to build it in a stack and then you used to take it in the barn and thresh it . |