Example sentences of "used [verb] them [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
2 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |
3 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
4 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
5 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |
6 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |