Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] out [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When I lived in southern France I used to sit out on the porch and watch the sun go down across the valley .
2 I used to go out of the farmhouse at night , into the garden .
3 I used to go out with the London detectives , and these Cockney fellers down in London , they 'd take money off anyone .
4 In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan .
5 Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp .
6 I eh , we used to go out to the West Mersea a lot , during the summer , you know , when it , when I was at Colchester doing , mm , swimming , nice swimming and eh , .
7 Another time was about October , I do n't know what he was doing with them , but in October , middle of October , we used to go out to the beach and shoot erm Oh what do you call them now ?
8 Time was you used to go out to the pictures to see something new , to escape endless reruns of old TV shows .
9 We used to have a lunch break at around about half past ten I think ti was , we used to go out for a quarter of an hour into the school yard to play and have your lunch .
10 I used to go out for a drink now and again .
11 No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep
12 If there was a moon she used to go out into the yard , and look at the moon , and prophesy what the world was going to be like tomorrow .
13 He used to go out in the air raids and watch the anti aircraft shells bursting in the sky because he said they looked like beautiful flowers .
14 When we used to go out in the street , I would be on one side of the matron holding her arm , my sister on the other side doing the same .
15 They used to go out in the morning to these houses , then they 'd give a performance on the sands .
16 ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall .
17 The girls used to come out with the barrows and the people with the shops used to complain .
18 Hornby loco we had those things you used to pull out of the cabs and they could go
19 Mm but who were the the people that used to help out with the dyking and ?
20 But you know you mentioned that people used to help out with the dogs .
21 I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference .
22 In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ .
23 involve me I used to get out in the morning , get up in the morning and be down there at six , see how many ships and see how many what I want , so many dockers on each ship , sometimes they 'd want say six , sometimes eight .
24 I remember how the tar used to boil out of the tarmac and stick to the soles of our shoes , and from there to our socks and our legs .
25 So if we would like further consultation apparently it was noted in view of the test carry out what we could do erm in fact the questionnaires have the response , I do share some of Mr 's er er worries that erm I think we ought to get out of the way and say to number one that this er .
26 ‘ You ought to get out in the sunshine .
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