Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ’ When we were very small , ’ Irina would recall , ’ our parents used to take us through the city streets on small sledges . |
| 3 | Elaine used to deafen them on the side there ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Any organisation ought to subject itself to the sort of management consultancy which will allow it to define its objectives , ’ he believes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My old mum used to take me to the fair there . |
| 8 | ‘ Jack used to call me into the office , ask me to sign three letters and then order me back out onto the training pitch because he knew that was my second home . ’ |
| 9 | She was supposed to have the power of healing stomach aches , and people used to visit her during the hours of the siesta so that no one would know . |
| 10 | Father used to demonstrate it to the boys at the grammar school when he was teaching history there . ’ |
| 11 | Uncle used to tell me about the time when the primitive Methodists and the Wesley Methodists were joining up . |
| 12 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 13 | It was said that um when he was a baby his nurse used to masturbate him in the cradle t to calm him to stop him crying and er apparently this was at that time , so it was believed , quite a common way of of keeping infants quiet . |
| 14 | My dad used to take me to the baths every Tuesday night . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mother used to take me to the lawyers in in Newarks . |
| 17 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | Your player used to test you on the first hole . |