Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pron] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No well we used to kill them with a stick but of course they used to lay the rabbits out at that time to see how many they caught cos that was a little bit of perks for the farm labourers they used to buy a rabbit for sixpence , then they go up to ninepence for a rabbit . |
| 2 | They used to fill it with a mixture of skin , feathers and maggots for a shilling . |
| 3 | Yeah we used to trim 'em with a hammer and chisel before |
| 4 | Make it into a a thick layer , and then in a day of so , the juice from the would have soaked into this second class hay and er you used to mix it with a fork and load it into into bags . |
| 5 | Had the nails in his mouth you know and er used to knock 'em with a file . |
| 6 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 7 | Andy will to shag anything with a pulse as he says . |