Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you really ought to give it some thought . |
| 2 | And then come and then wash your own cans out , and you used to carry them all through all round the village . |
| 3 | Yeah and I used to see them many a times in |
| 4 | Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain . |
| 5 | And he used to walk them all the way , I remember once him starting out er from what we call Hole , that 's at the top of the hill there , er starting out to walk them to Newcastle , and he took eleven . |
| 6 | and they used to buy it all off him for studding |
| 7 | Then after she got over she used , I used to give her some water then . |
| 8 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Abberley used to give me these chocolates , you see , Christmas and Easter , regular as clockwork . |
| 10 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 11 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 12 | We used to put some straw down and the manger and we used to give them some hay and they 'd amuse themselves in there tied up . |
| 13 | This or someone else 's sister would be they used to give you this to make your . |
| 14 | Er ther there we did , we had a tutor sister who used to give us all our lectures . |
| 15 | And she used to do them all , I mean , machine hemmings and and finish them off as she calls them , you know , so Con , oh yes she could of . |
| 16 | I used to do it that way |
| 17 | The Milton Humberside , dammit , who used to Do It all night long ? |
| 18 | I used to do it all , I had complete control of the house , now the situation has changed completely . |
| 19 | get 'em done for ya , you used to do a lot did n't you er car maintaining you used to do it all |
| 20 | I do n't think she meant to — I spect she forgot , cos it 's a good brush and she used to use it all the time . |
| 21 | He 's got a daughter from a previous relationship and he used to have her at weekends and he used to leave her all the time so he could go and play football and go out drinking . |
| 22 | When I was immersed in my book on Coleridge I used to read you some of his letters . |
| 23 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 24 | Th there was sort of decorations on the saddles and things like that you know , and er , er , they had this firm and it was up of course , well , and it , to tell how far it was I had to be in by seven o'clock and I used to run it all the way . |
| 25 | And you could go and get er a get a good dinner for anybody w yeah when they was poor if they had fish and chips for their dinner you see it never used to cost them all that much for for a dinner . |
| 26 | And she used to count us all and share it all out . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to spunk it all away . |
| 28 | And they used to stack them all in the cellar . |
| 29 | We used to call them that . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , Who used to call it that ? |