Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following year , after an excellent May and June playing for David Waterlane , Drew felt he ought to put something back into the game . |
| 2 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 3 | He used to find them all round the place ! |
| 4 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 5 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
| 6 | they used to pour it out of a can you know , it 's a wonder we did n't all die of tuberculosis but we did n't . |
| 7 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 8 | And the milkman he used to sell it out of a |
| 9 | And the tea in tea chests , loose tea in tea chests and you used to weigh it up by the quarter . |
| 10 | I 've lost whatever it was that used to draw me there like a magnet . ’ |
| 11 | Er , er , we used to do it out in the muck yard . |
| 12 | We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship . |
| 13 | And how they used to They used to put them on like a You know what these two-wheeled barrows like they put the sacks on , do n't you ? |
| 14 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 15 | Give him one part , now you hold that , I used to hook it on to a roller , tuck it over , pull it through and then you 've got it lined up hooked on to a roller . |
| 16 | According to the agreement Giorgio , Anna 's little boy , spent a couple of months each year with his mother and they used to send him over with a nurse-maid and a courier . |
| 17 | " Mum used to send me down to the job centre for jobs . |
| 18 | Well , she had some Holy Water in it , and she used to spray it about , and it used to keep them out for a bit , you know . |
| 19 | I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest . |
| 20 | ‘ I used to wake him up in the night saying : ‘ I 'm never going to give you a baby — what 's wrong with me ? |
| 21 | They used to get us home during the day , and when I come home from Norwich delivering a load of hay , there 'd be another load waiting for me . |
| 22 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |
| 23 | We used to chop them down in the slaughterhouse on two pulleys , you see . |
| 24 | We 're the ones who used to ring them up in the middle of the night . |
| 25 | ‘ The planes used to drop them off over the marshes . ’ |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | And my father used to take them out in the boat . |
| 28 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | It was Edna , my nursemaid , who used to take me down to the beach where we lived . |