Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also talks of ‘ grinding out ’ scores , in the way that Boycott used to grind out runs . |
| 2 | Cos then you come to your floor and then your sides used to go up villages on a ship . |
| 3 | That 's where us used to go up night times when it was raining and that cold . ’ |
| 4 | I used to go on St John 's Ambulance . |
| 5 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 6 | I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see . |
| 7 | He was a young lad and he used to go out Wednesdays and do the other rounds and then she used to go out Fridays and do down the Piste and Barway and come back and then up to Dowfield , then home again and she 'd be home by lunchtime then on a Friday . |
| 8 | He was a young lad and he used to go out Wednesdays and do the other rounds and then she used to go out Fridays and do down the Piste and Barway and come back and then up to Dowfield , then home again and she 'd be home by lunchtime then on a Friday . |
| 9 | It also contained a brief description of the 30 different social care services offered , the types of patient eligible to use them , and copies of the referral form and the form used to carry out core assessments . |
| 10 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 11 | ‘ I used to work back east , ’ he said . |
| 12 | They used to give us gum and sweets everything and the , they sometimes , the military police they used to come down town and they 'd be after deserters from Lichfield and |
| 13 | especially when we used to be at factory , because we used to come down Phillip 's yard , did n't |
| 14 | Our favoured method is undergravel filtration with internal powerfilters occasionally used to clean up tanks or supplement the undergravel systems . |
| 15 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 16 | The deaths of the two Indians was reported by another , captured as a child thirty years ago and subsequently used to track down members of his own tribe . |
| 17 | His mouth gave a wry twist as he remembered an old lady in his home town who used to buy up sympathy cards by the dozen . |
| 18 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 19 | For some reason I 'd thought I 'd be given just a sample in a small box — like those used to send out wedding cake . |
| 20 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 21 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 22 | They used to get up trees with glasses and look with everything they |
| 23 | I used to beat off nights about her when I was a kid — like everyone else . |
| 24 | The buses used to start from their to Hampton , and there used to be a place where they would leave newspapers and they put , put a er box there by that and people used to take out newspaper and put the money into the box and er , you ca n't dream of that sort of thing now . |
| 25 | I think power gives people attraction — Henry Kissinger , who was not the most handsome man in the world , became absolutely overwhelmingly attractive to women when he became dominant , and he used to take out Hollywood starlets . |
| 26 | G. S. Saxton thought that cattle stealing was ‘ indulged in as pure mischief , as naughty boys used to wrench off knockers … . the idea being ‘ Here is our enemy 's bull , let us eat it' ’ . ' |
| 27 | Thatcher also used to parcel out jobs to representatives of different interest groups in the party . |
| 28 | I used to bring down quilts and my machine was n't big enough and in any case I could n't possibly lift them once they were |
| 29 | With one sergeant I had then , I used to make up stories about keeping an eye on thieves if he did n't find me at the points . |
| 30 | When you was little I used to make up stories for him did n't I June ? |