Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was made in the 15th century and meant to keep holy relics but , at its feet , newly married couples used to promise each other eternal love and fidelity . |
| 2 | Yeah I used to like , we used to see each other sort of and I |
| 3 | Well she said they used to pass each other on the way to , going to work and er , one would say it 's dirty this morning Joe aye it , it mucky Robin |
| 4 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 5 | Change References : a sequential number , used to identify each change , allocated on receipt of the Change Request Form |
| 6 | Oh ah we used to get together and we used to discuss each other you know what we could take and what we could n't take . |
| 7 | They used to help each other . |
| 8 | We used to send each other pictures . |
| 9 | People used to fight each other over religion . |
| 10 | Such is his passion for Monty Python that he and his friends used to ring each other up in the morning with a quotation and have until five o'clock to remember what sketch it came from . |
| 11 | Benny and Eve used to tell each other in fits of laughter that he spent hours in his little room above the shop pressing all his ambitions into the suit with a damp cloth . |
| 12 | But he says that when his grandfather and his grandfather 's brother were starting the Store and stayed late every night to do the office work , they used to hear sounds in the walls and they used to tell each other there were little Store people . |
| 13 | At the start we used to copy each other and bounce off each other all the time , and I really gleaned everything I could . |
| 14 | Ramsden says the two disciplines ought to complement each other , but that most on the classical advertising side are unwilling to compromise their careful concepts with phone numbers or mailshot back-ups . |