Example sentences of "used [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I used to go for a pee at this point . |
| 2 | And they used to stage , well when we used to go for a penny the stage , they used to perhaps have competitions for the childrens what used to want to go on . |
| 3 | Richard Miles led a quiet life … and used to go for a drink a couple of times a week with friends at the Kings Heads in the village of Eastington , about three miles from his home . |
| 4 | now I am retired and er yes last year I was feeling a bit decrepit , you know I used to go for a full wal walk round after lunch , after dinner , around where she lives and it 's much harder now . |
| 5 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 6 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 7 | Karen Hamilton used to work for a community video workshop on the Isle of Dogs and is now a freelance director . |
| 8 | I love the story told to me by a make-up girl who used to work for a well-known London hairdresser . |
| 9 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 10 | I used to work for a young lady who loved roses , you see , and she had a lot in her garden . |
| 11 | I used to work for a certain er c er creamery there . |
| 12 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 13 | I used to work for a furniture and I always had the King 's Lynn I think was always easier |
| 14 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 15 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 16 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 17 | ‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’ |
| 18 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 20 | According to the family he rarely used it except on Sundays when he spent the afternoon and evening with an old chap who used to work for the firm and now lives in sheltered accommodation at Carbis Bay . |
| 21 | We have Whitewater Leisure , Contemporary Leisure and all the controversy about those who used to work for the Glasgow authority . |
| 22 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 23 | Harry , who used to work for the coal board , cites Graham Gooch as his favourite cricketer . |
| 24 | He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else . |
| 25 | She was the sort of woman who used to come for the weekend at home , sometimes , with a suitcase full of little black dresses for cocktails and dinner . |
| 26 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 27 | Many years ago I used to write for a magazine called ‘ Electronics and Computing Monthly ’ which was killed , even though it had a good circulation . |
| 28 | Headley used to write for The Voice , Britain 's leading black newspaper . |
| 29 | We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs . |
| 30 | Perhaps we are reaching for object-oriented technology as our great-grandparents used to reach for the ‘ cure-all ’ medicines sold by the travelling salesmen of the 19th century . |