Example sentences of "used [verb] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , excitedly , ‘ right back before all this , right back when we used to live in the old hole , I used to sit out at nights and watch the moon . |
| 2 | When I lived in southern France I used to sit out on the porch and watch the sun go down across the valley . |
| 3 | In the mornings I used to sit out in the warm sun of our terrace and read the travellers ' descriptions of the Delhi they knew from their visits at the very apex of the Mughal Empire . |
| 4 | It always used to go out of tune and I thought it was the tuners , but in fact the trouble was with that old Gibson vibrola — a terrible thing , really cheap . |
| 5 | I used to go out of the farmhouse at night , into the garden . |
| 6 | Then Elaine said , ‘ Do you remember we used to go out with Mama and buy Father 's cigars , and then go out with Father — he would take us into Newcastle and we would get Mama 's perfume . |
| 7 | I used to go out with the London detectives , and these Cockney fellers down in London , they 'd take money off anyone . |
| 8 | Is that about the bloke that used to go out with Joan Collins ? ’ |
| 9 | My mother , apart from being a skivvying , she used to go out with along with Mrs , doing the hatched , matched and dispatched department . |
| 10 | ‘ You used to go out with Jim Scott , did n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | Er they they did n't go out with the cart , just with a regular who used to go out with the with the horses and carts . |
| 12 | No , no , I come in the car , I was coming on the bus when I had this bloke next door doing some work like , I used to go out with him years ago , so he come in and had a cup of tea , I said , come in about half past eleven went home at one , he come |
| 13 | apparently she used to go out with him before she married Derek , I think her first husband was called . |
| 14 | I 've just seen her going that way , and I 've just seen skinny Mick that she used to go out with a she had baby to , coming this way . |
| 15 | He used to go out with Wendy 's Auntie June . |
| 16 | The one who used to go out with Barry . |
| 17 | Saturday night you used to go out with Ben , Ben and |
| 18 | Anyway , she 's got the hots for this feller down there that she used to go out with he 's about forty eight or something like that but She pref , preferred |
| 19 | Well , this feller Colin i , she used to go out with him before she met Steve she used to , she went on a nanny 's course , she went to college to be a nanny |
| 20 | He used to go out with Lucinda . |
| 21 | I ca n't believe I used to go out with him . |
| 22 | Did you know Tamsin used to go out with Jonathan ? |
| 23 | In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan . |
| 24 | She liked to go for walks and when things were going badly between herself and Simon she used to go out on her own a lot . |
| 25 | We used to go out on these walks in the country near the school , and we were accused of going with two lorry drivers behind a bush to have sex with them in exchange for a watch . |
| 26 | ‘ I used to go out on Sundays in London , sometimes to a brasserie in Covent Garden or to an ‘ olde Englishe ’ pub , and I 'd forgotten just how pleasant a long lunch can be . ’ |
| 27 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 28 | I knew the people from the ship — the crew used to go out at night-time and some of them would come back merry . |
| 29 | I used to go out to clubs a lot . |
| 30 | Time was you used to go out to the pictures to see something new , to escape endless reruns of old TV shows . |