Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to play for the Darlington Deanery Choir one afternoon a week . |
| 2 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 4 | And so he represses the part of himself which used to cry for the moon . |
| 5 | The clinical use is different : here one uses syndromes to help one be aware that , for example , if you notice symptom x in a patient , you ought to test for the presence of symptoms y and z , since they are very likely to be present . |
| 6 | It will feature celebrities and members of the public who dare to strip for the cameras . |
| 7 | The Naked Chat Show , to screen after midnight , will feature celebrities and members of the public who dare to strip for the cameras . |
| 8 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 9 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 10 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 11 | They are the dishes invented or popularized by the bargemen of the Rhone and their wives , and by the proprietors of the humble inns and charcuteries who used to cater for the men who worked the inland waterways . |
| 12 | She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner . |
| 13 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 14 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 15 | We used to tie her in there and get the cubs out then do you see , we used to dig for the cubs . |
| 16 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 17 | We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs . |
| 18 | As a Council , as Councillor says , we 've done everything we can to prepare for the Act . |
| 19 | Complain that the Committee is not getting the coverage it ought to have for the work it 's doing . |
| 20 | He himself was so influenced by Luther that he used to pray for the abolition of the Pope 's authority in England . |
| 21 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 22 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |