Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 2 | No , very few , erm in Lane , which is now in an estate agent 's parlance , erm a desirable part of the town , they used to be Mr the local the solicitor , of Castlegate , and his wife used to drive him to the station , to catch the train to Nottingham . |
| 3 | she could n't understand how , she said oh she said and , and a couple of channels that used to drive her up the wall . |
| 4 | He used to swing her by the leg to fortify her character . |
| 5 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 8 | old cart tyres we used to split them up the middle and made shoes . |
| 9 | We used to sell them in the Store . |
| 10 | Well that was what they call it , tortoise stove , used to be a big stove and that ai n't got no grate in they had er they used to feed it from the top , |
| 11 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean that 's what cut straight the way across that it was , it was all and my aunt she used to live by All Saints West Bromwich , we never used , we never went to see them we used to walk it down the road past the Boars Head onto the Navigation Inn , and up by the Sandlow and she used to live opposite er All Saints Church in West Bromwich , and erm coming back we should come back round midnight you know and er have you ever heard of the Whirly Gang ? |
| 14 | You used to buy them from the chemist . |
| 15 | Well when you had your grab , you used to lower it on the deck of the , deck of the erm trawler and when you open your grab , that much , a lot of it hold up in the grab you see , you could n't get so of course when you did take your grab up , lot of it went over the side . |
| 16 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 17 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 18 | but I used to put it through the mincer did n't I ? |
| 19 | And when I come back , she had the poker in the fire : they used to put it into the stout . ’ |
| 20 | Oh I tell you what we used to have a dresser like this in front of of of a of a h of a of a at home and er mother used to make a a jelly and she used to put it underneath the dresser and put a plate on on top of it in case the mice would get it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dad , dad used to use it for the bonfires but when he , when he did n't have any petrol he used to use it on the bonfire and he had it in a secret bottle and erm he got it too near and he did n't realize and all of a sudden it goes really really hot and he threw it and everywhere . |
| 23 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 24 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 25 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 26 | A shilling there or something , used to leave it on the top of the dustbin when she |
| 27 | One used to slap me on the back and say ‘ Get out there , son , and do it ’ , another would pluck at my sleeve and murmur , ‘ Do n't forget the one-liners … . ’ |
| 28 | And er he er he used I used Mother used to send me with the tea to the to the church to the churchyard to father . |
| 29 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 30 | And then they used to keep you in the Winter more or less and the visitors making up So it was s a steady trade all round . |