Example sentences of "used [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time . |
| 2 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 3 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
| 4 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 5 | Miners in the private licensed mines used to receive a few extra pounds for each shift to entice skilled workers away from the coal industry . |
| 6 | Stanley had the saw running — we used to sell a few logs in them days — when all of a sudden he hears an explosion and thinks somebody 's having a go at his precious Lagonda . |
| 7 | We used to sell a few of them . |
| 8 | I used to buy a half a pound for 400 pesos and make thousands of papelitas to sell at 50 centavos . |
| 9 | This is a bad mistake , as her ex- husband used to do the same thing for real often enough . |
| 10 | But in a stage of my life I used to do the same thing a lot . |
| 11 | Er and they used to do the same to ours . |
| 12 | ‘ Michael used to do the same , ’ said Holdfast . |
| 13 | He used to do the same everyone else ! |
| 14 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 15 | And we all used to we we both schools ended up , er used to use the same assembly hall . |
| 16 | Never an assiduous Bible reader , though while mother was alive she used to read a few verses for her sake , she now began to turn to it more and more in search of enlightenment but her head swam when she tried to read . |
| 17 | " Aye , but he used to keep a few beasts years ago . |
| 18 | ‘ We used to share the same office and we can work together in the same environment , but not when we are actually working for the same clients , ’ she says . |
| 19 | And you and you used to get the same money . |
| 20 | And the minister used to get the same . |
| 21 | I used to cut them all up and they used to leave me the legs , you know , the hams and the backs and they used to have a few joints off and take home and then the rest I used to lay it , put it into bacon down the cellar . |
| 22 | ‘ We used to have the same problem with Shrewsbury . |
| 23 | But you could n't fill th the milk churns then , you used to have the half pint and pint measures , hanging inside your milk . |
| 24 | But I used to pay a half to every bill . |
| 25 | Oh I used to say a half an hour and then when they ran to waken me I 'd say give me five more minutes and then another five minutes |
| 26 | Bobby Darin used to feel the same way . |