Example sentences of "used [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the boy 's job , not a very pleasant one too because he had to — one of the hardest jobs I reckon , and the least paid — he had to cook the food and coil the big rope which was a nasty job , especially in the summer when the jelly-fish were about ; they used to sting the hands and he 'd get a rash between his fingers . ’ |
| 2 | And of course my work here , I used to do in I used to plant a lot in . |
| 3 | In the above example the devices used to signal the clause type are : 1 ) the affixation on the verb root ( root underlined above ) 2 ) the set of pronouns 3 ) the noun marker . |
| 4 | The offline operations are designed on the assumption that there will not be constant manning of the physical units used to mount the offline media . |
| 5 | My mother , now some years dead , used to breathe the word in the same hushed tones she bestowed upon jews , Asians , and Natives . |
| 6 | Yeah oh he 's er what happened to him , right he used to like a drink when he were here . |
| 7 | My dad used to work erm and this bloke used to like a pint of erm , oh I ca n't remember |
| 8 | He used to like the … social … side … of the … meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ I used to like the gallop ; now I like the walk . |
| 10 | I used to like the two |
| 11 | Because we boys used to like the windbound lying and talking and in the galley and smelling of the coming from the galley , all the saucepans and things like that . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to like the little beggar . |
| 13 | yeah , I did like the used to make but I used to like the |
| 14 | I mean , it is different , I never used to like the loose tea , when I was younger , but now I I sort of really taste the difference . |
| 15 | Er for instance erm films used to affect the design and fashion a lot in . |
| 16 | The total amount receivable on the sale of the Company 's share capital or its business plus repayments of intercompany indebtedness , dividends ( including tax credits ) and any other form of structuring used to affect the price ; |
| 17 | Work , leisure , social stratification , social control , patterns of family life , the Church , and so on will be likely headings used to stimulate the respondent to talk about the past . |
| 18 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 19 | Well the , the lads used to skin the rabbits for the customers and throw the skin ov over the top of this cart , horse and cart . |
| 20 | That building in the corner housed the old portable steam-engine that Mr Webster the miller later bought : he used to grind the corn there when there was no wind . |
| 21 | Old friends of the Chesapeake , they noticed something alarming beneath the water : the submerged grasses that used to carpet the river 's bottom were disappearing . |
| 22 | Noel also encouraged many musicians to settle there , notably Gustav Holst [ q.v. ] , who wrote much music for the church , while his daughter , Imogen Holst [ q.v. ] , used to conduct the orchestra . |
| 23 | I used to sit the , sit against the wall and hold onto my hay net . |
| 24 | Before I got married I used to go a church twice a day . |
| 25 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 26 | Going to t and I used to go every Saturday night here . |
| 27 | we used to go every year be go round to erm for a bonfire but the old boy was saying that he said they ca n't afford it next year . |
| 28 | Erm , I first went when I was about twenty five and I used to go every year from then on |
| 29 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 30 | you you used to go the weekly meetings the Labour Party . |