Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |
| 2 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
| 3 | Well when you had your grab , you used to lower it on the deck of the , deck of the erm trawler and when you open your grab , that much , a lot of it hold up in the grab you see , you could n't get so of course when you did take your grab up , lot of it went over the side . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A shilling there or something , used to leave it on the top of the dustbin when she |
| 6 | One used to slap me on the back and say ‘ Get out there , son , and do it ’ , another would pluck at my sleeve and murmur , ‘ Do n't forget the one-liners … . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | They used to stack it on the quay . |
| 9 | Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages . |
| 10 | Elaine used to deafen them on the side there ! |
| 11 | They ought to spend it on the speaker — I would 've thought that was obvious . |