Example sentences of "used [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And the tea in tea chests , loose tea in tea chests and you used to weigh it up by the quarter . |
| 4 | Er , er , we used to do it out in the muck yard . |
| 5 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 6 | " Mum used to send me down to the job centre for jobs . |
| 7 | I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to wake him up in the night saying : ‘ I 'm never going to give you a baby — what 's wrong with me ? |
| 9 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |
| 10 | We used to chop them down in the slaughterhouse on two pulleys , you see . |
| 11 | We 're the ones who used to ring them up in the middle of the night . |
| 12 | ‘ The planes used to drop them off over the marshes . ’ |
| 13 | And my father used to take them out in the boat . |
| 14 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |
| 15 | It was Edna , my nursemaid , who used to take me down to the beach where we lived . |
| 16 | And I used to take it down to the grave yard . |
| 17 | Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap . |
| 18 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 19 | She used to hand it in at the counter , this |
| 20 | Used to bring them up to the dock |
| 21 | Used to bring them up to the dock . |
| 22 | 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 . |