Example sentences of "used [to-vb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stock markets fluctuate wildly , economists have difficulty forecasting performance or prescribing remedies ; the indicators and institutions that used to provide us with reliable and reassuring benchmarks no longer seem to be functioning properly . |
| 2 | Basil used to tease us about movement and chuckle at our claims for its fundamental importance in the education of young children . |
| 3 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 4 | In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army … |
| 5 | ‘ He used to help us with our homework , ’ said Rhianon . |
| 6 | He used to help us with anything before he got with her he 'd always help me he always looked happy , now he |
| 7 | And er he was the choir master erm and he and he used to put us onto , we used to have various plays you know , erm maybe two a year or something like that . |
| 8 | In past centuries , shortages of military manpower used to force us into alliances with continental powers . |
| 9 | He used to have us in stitches at times at Aberdeen , and I 'm sure he does at United . |
| 10 | YOUR correspondent Mrs Kalinowsky ( April 5 ) is perhaps thinking of Gillie Potter , who used to regale us with accounts of the goings-on at Hogsnorton . |
| 11 | A Tyneside girl disliked going for dinners to her grandmother because ‘ she used to threaten us with this monkey stick , hung behind the door . ’ |
| 12 | He used to ask us for the pearl off our coats , collars , put on the horses , make 'em all . |
| 13 | ’ When we were very small , ’ Irina would recall , ’ our parents used to take us through the city streets on small sledges . |
| 14 | A bus used to take us to school in the Ajami area of Jaffa but there was no school that day and I was pleased . |
| 15 | Where was that French place Louise used to take us to ? ’ |
| 16 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
| 17 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 18 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 19 | And there 's a bit a very a very Aye , one that my father used to tell us about it . |
| 20 | And he , he used to tell us about his travels around America , you know and he , he told us about working in Baltimore in the forty sixth street or something , in a forge , they called them forges out there . |
| 21 | Well not in the herring fishing but er there was also a a salt fish kind of processing place out in the Hens And me mother work at it and she used to tell us about I supposed they 'll be not rubber boats in that d days . |
| 22 | She used to tell us about the you see they were n't allowed to make er malt and that . |
| 23 | Pat used to tell us about it |
| 24 | And she used to tell us like and and things like that . |