Example sentences of "[pers pn] used to take [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 But her boys used to run steam roller outside middle house and I used to take them in .
2 I bought it in village in Mark 's Wood I used to take it up the runway and
3 I used to take it out sometimes , undo the little golden clasp , and run my fingers over the softness of the velvet inside .
4 And I used to take it down to the grave yard .
5 Because cos I used to take it down there when I used to stay at her house .
6 Been a bit battered , I used to take it off , it wants us , it wants cleaning
7 Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson
8 And er when I went to school , Miss the old teacher , she used to take me out , er I used to go to the school ready to go to Deerness , we had to ask out a quarter of an hour early .
9 Tell me about that what you used to take them in .
10 When I was at school , we used to take it in turns to visit a former pupil , a woman in her twenties , who lay in hospital incurably handicapped .
11 Well , that 's the quickest way to do it , we used to hang one below the other on the dredger , be put up at sunset and we used to take 'em down early in the morning , but you always had , you always had erm navigation lights up , must
12 That 's still there now , cos they used to take it up there and dump it when it were n't any good .
13 Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap .
14 An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’
15 He would n't allow for mistakes , he used to take it out of himself , his equipment — and , of course , the nearest guy at hand .
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