Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " 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 | My dad used to buy it , always used to buy it on a Sunday evening . |
| 3 | Tommy Roberts used to phone me on a Saturday when I first started working there . |
| 4 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 5 | We used to rent it from the Kipling family before Daddy bought it , but even my great-grandfather William Bayles farmed at Low Birk Hatt . |