Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , er so of course there was always people coming to the house connected with the Co-op educational side , you know and erm I used to sort of you kn understand it all , mother was the treasurer and sometimes the secretary would come down to see her . |
| 2 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |
| 3 | you know I used to sort of bellow out |
| 4 | And I , I used to sort of sit in er put sit myself in my little erm bunk you know ? |
| 5 | That , that 's her main , she used to sort of look after things and baby-sit for us in the evenings . |
| 6 | Well , she used to sort of keep shop for him , she was deaf as a post ! |
| 7 | That 's instead of er clipping them on , they used to b instead of clipping them on the back you used to rope at front and one at back see . |
| 8 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
| 9 | I thought this sort of thing would be something the Green Party nationally should decide that whether in principle we ought to affiliate with . |
| 10 | I think we ought to sort of |
| 11 | So of course we used to sort of try and get in in the nurses ' home through a ground floor window . |
| 12 | And we used to sort of arrange it when one was n't cooking the other one would be you know and this sort of thing . |
| 13 | The back of there there used to be one or two people who used to have little outhouses where they used to sort of make things , and my grandfather up the Pleck , he was a good locksmith and he had his shop at the back of the house and he cou he could watch the Walsall races going on , which is now where the Road is , from his workshop before Street was put and any of those and he could stand in his workshop and watch the races . |
| 14 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 15 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 16 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 17 | But Gerry did n't have confidence you see so he used to sort of rely on me to tell , but you will come to the conclusion that if I had would have said Gerry 's workmanship was absolutely superb ! |
| 18 | And he used to sort of be embarrassed about it . |
| 19 | I mean , I feel a bit , and he used to sort of denigrate it . |
| 20 | But he , he used to sort of say , oh do n't tell people , you know , he 'd think . |