Example sentences of "used [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 2 | And if anybody was sick , in those days , and they were nearly dying , we used to sit up with them , night after night . |
| 3 | Old Charlie 's car wooden spokes , wooden wheels solid tyres and he used to sit up right in there same as I am now , like in a box and the old chauffeur was the chauffeur driving along . |
| 4 | At about 2am I used to go up to the lab . |
| 5 | And us used to go up there … |
| 6 | That 's where us used to go up night times when it was raining and that cold . ’ |
| 7 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |
| 8 | The lift used to go up and down in a very slow stately fashion just like a cliff railway . |
| 9 | Sergeant and I used to go up there every night . |
| 10 | So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’ |
| 11 | Before that , he used to go up to London and try to visit her . ’ |
| 12 | Another thing er While on union business er I used to go up on negotiations , you see ? |
| 13 | And erm some houses used to some houses used to go up some steps and two steps and The one where I used to be and you went you used to go up two steps . |
| 14 | But there was a big door , well I used to get in the entry from , with an ordinary key , used to go up the b up the op big opening and open the big doors from the insides , you see what I mean , for the rest to come in . |
| 15 | And I used to go up there and tell him what I wanted and as far as keys and anything like that , got sent to me he would . |
| 16 | I used to go up past there believing the that the minister was the the represented the Antichrist . |
| 17 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 18 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 19 | Er firework night now I we would get bangers , put them , get a dustbin lid and , and put the banger under the dustbin lid and the dustbin lid used to go up because they were big bangers then . |
| 20 | Cos then you come to your floor and then your sides used to go up villages on a ship . |
| 21 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 22 | Well I would say er about ten year ago , cos I was stevedoring then stevedore and erm I used to go up there , and I was very friendly with the old skipper there . |
| 23 | So when you say you used to go up to the pool . |
| 24 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 25 | Oh yeah , that 's what I 'm saying , there 's eight people used to go up I 've seen eight people leaving the Stenness Hotel crofters were around go round gillying for for the Stenness Hotel . |
| 26 | And one of them best lads of the yard used to go up there and meet the year meet them . |
| 27 | He bought the car off my boy i i it was worth five thousand odd , it was worth and he , he used to cart me about , see just you know , Steve did , before he , we got this money he used to go up to what is that ? |
| 28 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |
| 29 | We used to go up there for our breaks as well morning and afternoon and they used to have dances sometimes in the evening . |
| 30 | I was in the central Cubs and we used to go up there to lime pits and round Lingley Woods you know on days out tracking and all that sort of thing . |