Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no I just did n't want anything , I do n't , I do n't bother I , I mean I only used to have one meal a day before . |
| 2 | I never used to prepare a question , I just used to turn up , think ‘ This is good ’ and have a drink with them and try to be funny about it later . ’ |
| 3 | I just used to do a bit of cottaging , picking people up , particularly during the war ; that was the heyday in picking people up so easily — in crowded trains , in the blackout — but it was always just the one-off . |
| 4 | Life got that bad that I just used to sleep with the kids . |
| 5 | So if I had a queue is n't it , I just used to carry on with whatever was going on . |
| 6 | ‘ But I just used to hide my glue bag in the toilet before I went in to see my social worker . ’ |
| 7 | I just used to feel horrible . ’ |
| 8 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 9 | I just used to read . |
| 10 | no , no badly but like I just used to think he was so much more chatty than , we just used to sit there and go alright we 'd get off with each other then we 'd break like , you know like try , you 'd , like the conversation |
| 11 | and even in the middle of the night on the odd occasion that he sort of disturbed a bit , I just used to shout to him |
| 12 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 13 | " And I just used to count the days till hers came . |
| 14 | I 've usually been , been senior secretary , I 've usually been the one in charge of the petty cash , which , sent out for proper coffee and the new kettle if the kettle blew it 's fused and the and the tea pot and the tea bags and the , I just used to write a note in the , in the cash book |
| 15 | But I just used to have this dream , of all these animals , and I had to go in with all these animals , it was actually full , crammed full of animals , that were all out to eat me , and , kill me , |
| 16 | ‘ I always used to wonder why so many players retired without putting anything back into their clubs . |
| 17 | ‘ I always used to wonder if he might be . |
| 18 | ‘ I always used to like Doctor Who , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I always used to like him , she remembered ; I was glad when he came to the house . |
| 20 | Mm they were different now but I always used to like it . |
| 21 | I always used to sleep in , until we got married . |
| 22 | I always used to wear a yellow overall , yellow . |
| 23 | Yeah , well I 'm a bit like that , I ca n't wear a jumper because I , I and yet years ago I always used to wear |
| 24 | I always used to go round mouthing to everyone : ‘ Who are you looking at , you white bitch and you black cow ’ and things like that . |
| 25 | I used to walk along there to see these rabbits I think the name was and they , it was a barber 's shop that had got these sold all sorts of pet things and that I used to , then I used to come home that was my Saturday morning , but I always used to go in up to the news line . |
| 26 | Yes , cos I always used to go to bed a lot earlier than you guys . |
| 27 | I hummed to myself , something I always used to do when I wanted to smile or laugh , but thought the better of it . |
| 28 | I always used to pick him up when daddy went out in the morning on his bike or on the bus , pick him up and wave bye-bye , see you soon . |
| 29 | Two o'clock and I always used to leave work and take him out for an hour . |
| 30 | At school , I always used to enjoy the music lessons , the music teacher was a man called . |