Example sentences of "used [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 2 | As a little girl , Agnes used to go for walks with her father , and once she asked him whether he believed in God . |
| 3 | So I used to go for it , just in case , and nine times out of 10 he 'd find me . |
| 4 | Sometimes I used to go for a pee at this point . |
| 5 | beautiful , we used to go for some lovely walks did n't we ? |
| 6 | And they used to stage , well when we used to go for a penny the stage , they used to perhaps have competitions for the childrens what used to want to go on . |
| 7 | Used to go for sometimes two or three weeks , sometimes if it was a maternity a month , but I used to enjoy it . |
| 8 | Richard Miles led a quiet life … and used to go for a drink a couple of times a week with friends at the Kings Heads in the village of Eastington , about three miles from his home . |
| 9 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 10 | now I am retired and er yes last year I was feeling a bit decrepit , you know I used to go for a full wal walk round after lunch , after dinner , around where she lives and it 's much harder now . |
| 11 | We used to go once a month you know when the girls were in the Guides , used to go for their parade service and if you were at Auckley , Malcolm and I used to go up with Heidi did n't I ? |
| 12 | used to go , used to go for runs did n't he ? |
| 13 | See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now . |
| 14 | He used to drive for you . ’ |
| 15 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook was Home Secretary , he used to draft for us what he described as a crime clock . |
| 16 | And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away . |
| 17 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 18 | Well , I used to wait for her , trembling like a leaf ; then she would come behind me and bump me , and down I would go , down , down , down , into hell and wake up screaming and our Charlie shaking the life out of me … ’ |
| 19 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 20 | The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back . |
| 21 | I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home . |
| 22 | Often when we went to Retford by train , we used to wait for George Hird 's bus , if you could call it a bus . |
| 23 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 24 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 25 | I would n't trust anybody I was talking to that lady , paper shop you know where you used to wait for Les |
| 26 | True , they would have had a stronger showing had not their former prime minister , Lothar de Maizière , stepped down before the election amid charges ( which he denies , and which an inquiry looks set to discuss ) that he used to work for the former East German secret police . |
| 27 | There is a bar by the roadside , further on , and I 'll enquire there , as I think the landlady used to work for the Harvey-Beaumonts . |
| 28 | Karen Hamilton used to work for a community video workshop on the Isle of Dogs and is now a freelance director . |
| 29 | Your business plans could be severely jeopardised if you become embroiled in litigation started by the company that you used to work for . |
| 30 | Ruggles , who used to work for Sinclair in Britain , developed a circuit for steering sound signals into the four channels of a quadrophonic system . |