Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Lady got rid of him because he obviously used to say to the Cabinet , ’ You wo n't get away with this , you know . |
| 2 | Then you had a a spare man what you sent over the harvest , which you hired for a a month of occasionally they only used to come by the day . |
| 3 | Life got that bad that I just used to sleep with the kids . |
| 4 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 5 | That 's what I always used to say to the troops . ’ |
| 6 | We would n't let them meet on the corners because the people in the houses on the corners always used to complain of the row that they made — used to chase them . |
| 7 | The poem then outlines the reasons for doing this , describing how the dead soldier always used to wake with the sun . |
| 8 | It made her feel vulnerable , the way she always used to feel in the past . |
| 9 | Of many , in summertime we always used to stand at the top of the yards , you know , men and women . |
| 10 | The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 12 | Even the Prime Minister , who once used to arrive on the last day by aeroplane in order to deliver his speech , sits every day on the platform listening to rebuke , complaint and exhortation . |
| 13 | And we 'd knock out things like ‘ Slow Death ’ by The Flamin' Groovies — who also used to come in the shop now and again when they were in town . |
| 14 | And then er oh I often used to go to the pier concerts you know , Sunday night , Saturday night and Sunday night because they tiptop musical concerts . |
| 15 | They often used to argue about the central heating . |
| 16 | He often used to come to the house . ’ |
| 17 | We often used to laugh about the owd boy and the fly . ’ |
| 18 | We did n't used to talk to the men about ti obvious . |
| 19 | Oh they used to be ever so funny houses you know and in them days and The er you never used to see in the oh a lot of houses and you never used to see big windows like these . |
| 20 | never used to go on the |
| 21 | I never used to go in the shops , I used to go in the banks . |
| 22 | I , I used to walk it there when I went there , e even from Lane I never used to get on the bus I , I used to walk it down there cos we used to go down by the side of , of the old Street cemetery you know over by the gas works and up Street the erm |