Example sentences of "used [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My mother , now some years dead , used to breathe the word in the same hushed tones she bestowed upon jews , Asians , and Natives . |
| 5 | He used to like the … social … side … of the … meeting . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to like the gallop ; now I like the walk . |
| 7 | I used to like the two |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I used to like the little beggar . |
| 10 | yeah , I did like the used to make but I used to like the |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Er for instance erm films used to affect the design and fashion a lot in . |
| 13 | 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 ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such an action would have been expected to lower the cyclic AMP content irrespective of the agonist used to stimulate the cells . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I used to sit the , sit against the wall and hold onto my hay net . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | you you used to go the weekly meetings the Labour Party . |
| 23 | But erm anyway , the erm and some of the men , used to go The older men , used to go and er to the smithy and cos er the our the s fitting shop had a three fires at one end you see , where the am blacksmiths were . |
| 24 | Well and he used to come regular every Friday afternoon , and he used to go the s a ch lower down you know , after you pass the police station on the left there , there used to be a butcher 's place there . |
| 25 | I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time . |
| 26 | Well I th they live in the catchment area for Fram because she used to go the |
| 27 | This is due to the fact that the bacteria normally used to penetrate the cell walls does not affect them . |
| 28 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 29 | The modern performers ' impulse to ‘ orchestrate ’ medieval and Renaissance music is also revealed in the various instrumentations used to perform the lines of medieval secular chansons . |
| 30 | Alan , who was still at school taking his ‘ A ’ levels , said that he and other rugby-playing friends used to attend the discos of the Young Liberals . |