Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain . |
| 2 | ‘ Miss Abberley used to give me these chocolates , you see , Christmas and Easter , regular as clockwork . |
| 3 | And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones . |
| 4 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 5 | and I think the lads they used to get them some chocolates or something , she says oh more chocolates I 've got loads of them |
| 6 | They used to pay me fifteen shillings a week . |
| 7 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |
| 8 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |
| 9 | Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me . |
| 10 | As I got older and people used to bring me injured birds to look after , I was always very careful of them and did n't approach without the leather glove I wear when working with birds of prey . |
| 11 | My father , six kids on a Friday night , we used to put a bucket of water on the hot sink , on the old gas stove and my father used to bath us six kids in front of the fire . |