Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's so good at bottling things up , he ought to work in a ketchup factory . ’ |
| 2 | He used to flee into a cubicle at the sound of approaching feet . |
| 3 | You know he used to see to a lot of our meals , and see that we were away to school and such-like . ’ |
| 4 | He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done . |
| 5 | When he was young he used to live in a place called Manfield , near Darlington , along with his brother . |
| 6 | And he used to stay in a hostel in , |
| 7 | He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety . |
| 8 | He used to work on a farm and wanted to be buried in a country church . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Just a few years ago , he used to work in a bank . |
| 11 | The olive grove through which he used to walk as a boy was submerged beneath a main road and a cluster of lean-to engineering sheds even before 1948 . |
| 12 | He used to buy in a lot of delicacies to pretend to his family that Gina could cook . |
| 13 | Mr Brown grew up in Darlington where his parents , Mr and Mrs Allan Brown , still live in Coatham Crescent , and in his youth he used to stand at a vantage point near the Whessoe Road/ Honeypot Lane junction to watch the rally cars speeding on their way , never dreaming that one day he would be among them . |