Example sentences of "used [to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
| 2 | According to the agreement Giorgio , Anna 's little boy , spent a couple of months each year with his mother and they used to send him over with a nurse-maid and a courier . |
| 3 | I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to wake him up in the night saying : ‘ I 'm never going to give you a baby — what 's wrong with me ? |
| 5 | see if you can find out who 's spending money down that area , and then a occasionally , not , not too often , jobs that he 's fell back on and dropped , I 've been able to get a little start on , and very foolishly I used to tell him sometimes of the progress I was making that was where I made a mistake . |
| 6 | When he was a lad they used to tie him up in the cellar , starve him for days and read the Bible to him as food for his soul . |