Example sentences of "[pron] used [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to go down the villages . |
| 2 | It 's probably a similar situation at er , the last company I worked for , used to have me , me lunch hour , I used to go down the swimming baths and do two and half hours there . |
| 3 | When I used to turn down the corner of the strasse I heard her music . |
| 4 | I used to hang about the school waiting for him to come out . |
| 5 | And I used to make out the rosters . |
| 6 | I used to ring up the ambulance people : ‘ There 's a fight and somebody 's got hurt at the Queen 's Head . ’ |
| 7 | And I used to get round the head-one of the gardeners . |
| 8 | I used to walk around the place , thinking about it . |
| 9 | THE propaganda machine which used to crank out the political fantasies of East European communists is being put to work turning out mushy romance novels . |
| 10 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 11 | The government , which used to play down the ‘ brain drain' , now accepts the need for frankness . |
| 12 | Little Pete and Ellie who used to hang on the very words of Uncle John . |
| 13 | ‘ The one who used to hollow out the inside of a baguette for breakfast , and fill it up with condensed milk , and lower it into his mouth like a sword-swallower ? ’ |
| 14 | She felt a thousand miles away from the gentle professor , who used to cross out the expletives in Sheridan and even bowdlerized Macbeth . |
| 15 | I still have the big iron mangle she used to wring out the clothes . |
| 16 | when you , when you used to go down the beach and do fucking moonies with all the |
| 17 | Moving on from the , the dredger back to when you were a stevedore you used to sort out the different work for the , for the men , where did you used to congregate first thing in the morning ? |
| 18 | You used to switch off the lights and run . |
| 19 | How we used to ferret out the info , gradually piecing together the clues . |
| 20 | But the highlight of it was that I used to get a ride on the dray and I used he he we used to finish up the round at the bottom of erm Road , and Street . |
| 21 | We used to prick out the holes in the malting tiles . |
| 22 | And we used to send back the erm |
| 23 | We 'll tell you all , we used to look out the window and the boys would be playing football ! |
| 24 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |
| 25 | Well that happened and er I was man and er they er brought me all the odd jobs that was going about and they used to go down the warehouse and er there was a fellow there , well a woman more than anything , know 'd where every thing was and in no time at all they showed me where the things were and er I er , young , it was in my memory , and in no time at all the men in the shop used to come and ask me to get them something from out the warehouse for this and that and the other . |
| 26 | Barton-on-Humber , Burton Stava Broomfleet all had clay pits where they used to dig out the clay and cut it up and make it into bricks . |
| 27 | We did , we did the Merry Widow and we had , th the Gazettes they 're called , th the Gazettes and er they used to come out the wings with all this , you know ? |
| 28 | My husband recollect when they used to climb up the stocks to put the owd canvas sails on the mill . |