Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Simon used to work for my father a few years ago , but he … ’ |
| 2 | Karen Hamilton used to work for a community video workshop on the Isle of Dogs and is now a freelance director . |
| 3 | The 30-year-old Palacio used to fight for coins in the streets of Medellin and was good enough to fight for the WBA super-bantamweight crown two years ago , when he claimed he was robbed . |
| 4 | Motoring journalists were reminded of the values that GT used to stand for when reviewing the 164.0 Cloverleaf . |
| 5 | Malcolm was really into doing good window displays for the shop , often influenced by the ones Mr Green used to do for his Vince 's Man 's Shop in Soho — which was the first boutique ever , bringing faded blue denim and hipster trousers to the British public in the fifties . |
| 6 | Headley used to write for The Voice , Britain 's leading black newspaper . |
| 7 | As a little girl , Agnes used to go for walks with her father , and once she asked him whether he believed in God . |
| 8 | When she arrived home , Emily shrugged off her coat and kicked her shoes across the room ; they were not comfortable shoes , the leather was hard and ill-shaped , nothing like the wonderful shoes Hari Morgan used to make for her . |
| 9 | Mr Brezhnev was infuriated when Ceausescu used to call for lower Warsaw Pact defence budgets , or established diplomatic relations with Israel , or restored party-to-party relations with China 's Communist party . |