Example sentences of "used [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I I do you know I 've been back since but I just could n't find it now , but there it 'll be , but on the side of the er at , he used to preach at this mission , there was only him you know used to preach , and I do n't know how many other people were at , it would n't hold above er would n't hold above thirty . |
| 2 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 3 | They used to signal to each other when there was trouble about . ’ |
| 4 | GLENN McCRORY , the 25-year-old British cruiserweight who defends his IBF title against the South African Siza Makhatini in Middlesbrough on 21 October , said yesterday that his long-term target is still to challenge Mike Tyson , who he used to spar with . |
| 5 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to like to striptease in public . |
| 7 | We used to feud about the oil-leaks which would drain down the side of the.little courtyard and get under and into my flower-pots . |
| 8 | The stockpile of grief continued to grow unrecognized in the business of her life , disguised by the use of prescribed and acquired sedatives and tranquillizers that she used to cope with her ‘ nerves ’ . |
| 9 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 10 | I used to sit under the table and pretend not to hear . |
| 11 | I used to sit with her in my arms , and sometimes I cried too . |
| 12 | She always used to sit with her legs open and these bloody knickers |
| 13 | and what have you come down for a meal and we used to sit with the landlord having a having a natter whilst having a few few drinks and er yeah he he used to say er when we went up what do you fancy tonight ? |
| 14 | When we used to sit with you in Humanities sat next to you right , and I was saying like erm erm , you were saying I got you to say so who are gon na bring down the school to beat me up ? |
| 15 | Her hands were spread upon the arms of the chair , as she used to sit beside him on occasions of state , erect and observant , quick to anticipate , deft in manipulation . |
| 16 | I used to sit outside the job centre , then come home and say , " I have applied , but I had to send in an application form " , and I had n't even gone in there . |
| 17 | Me father used to sit at one side of the fireplace and me aunt at the other one , and they would sit and talk about the Bible . |
| 18 | A London grandmother was particularly troublesome because of her drinking sprees , but her granddaughter was expected to clean her front doorsteps every Saturday : ‘ the old bugger used to sit at the window and watch me clean 'em . |
| 19 | In the past , according to Mackenzie , they used to sit at opposite ends of the site firing off hostile letters to each other . |
| 20 | There used to be a long table and the head used to sit at the end of this table and so to see that you did n't leave off working she used to get the table cloth and always be pulling this table straight . |
| 21 | Later in the conversation , he said ‘ I used to sit at my desk and fear — the unknown , or that we would all be killed . |
| 22 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 23 | When I was feeding , used to sit on my knee too and we would read books around him . |
| 24 | She pointed beyond a wooden pier to the place where she used to sit on a crate beside her father as he fished through the ice . |
| 25 | I used to sit on the wall , spurring the brick and tossing the purse magnanimously to the dog below . |
| 26 | I used to sit on the floor crying but Brian always pulled me out of it . ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't remember any of it now , but I used to sit on a crate and listen to her , and think about freedom , stupid things you think when you 're a kid , you know . |
| 28 | St Richards was fun and strict , with not enough to eat and high academic standards ; I developed a crush on the assistant matron who had a phenomenally large chest ; I liked her because she used to sit on the ends of our beds and talk to us before we went to sleep . |
| 29 | Somebody used to sit on the carpet at one end of the room with a walking stick and a chalk mark in front of him and the contestants used to have to come up to him and try to rub the marking out and he used to rap the hands with his walking stick . |
| 30 | He has never forgotten the poverty of his childhood — when he used to sit on packing cases at home and eat meals of toast and milk . |