Example sentences of "used to take [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 2 | And my father used to take them out in the boat . |
| 3 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |
| 4 | It was Edna , my nursemaid , who used to take me down to the beach where we lived . |
| 5 | But Miss used to take me out into here , to the teachers cloak room and and er er plait my hair up again and s say to me , I 'll take it out before you go away Isa , because there was It was n't a clean place in Kirkwall . |
| 6 | He would n't allow for mistakes , he used to take it out of himself , his equipment — and , of course , the nearest guy at hand . |
| 7 | And I used to take it down to the grave yard . |
| 8 | Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap . |
| 9 | And sometimes dad used to take us down to Serenity , to see the ships . |