Example sentences of "[modal v] to take [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ . |
| 2 | Yeah , right on the sole and cos we used to take them off the iron and put a bit of leather on and grease the uppers with neat's-foot oil and they were really lovely and warm in the winter . |
| 3 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 4 | She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened . |
| 5 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 6 | My old mum used to take me to the fair there . |
| 7 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 8 | She used to take me to the local baths in Penzance sometimes , because my grandmother insisted I had to learn to swim , even if I would n't go into the sea . |
| 9 | My dad used to take me to the baths every Tuesday night . |
| 10 | Mother used to take me to the lawyers in in Newarks . |
| 11 | He also used to take me into the insect house , where he kept mosquitoes infected with tropical diseases . |
| 12 | Then you used to build it in a stack and then you used to take it in the barn and thresh it . |
| 13 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 14 | ’ When we were very small , ’ Irina would recall , ’ our parents used to take us through the city streets on small sledges . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I ought to take you to the farmhouse to be seen to — that iss , if I can carry you . ’ |