Example sentences of "[pers pn] used [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If you happen to be serving , but I used to serve quite a lot myself . |
2 | Originally when I first went there I used to go twice a week . |
3 | Although I did go and watch the rugby , I never was a great one for , and I , I used to swim quite a lot . |
4 | Then came the period when I used to hang out a lot just with DeFries and we 'd drive down to David and Angie 's place in Beckenham , Haddon Hall , on Sundays , and Angie would cook and we 'd sit around . |
5 | Well , as you know , when I was a novice I used to do quite a lot of teaching , because the nuns were short-handed , and it was useful practice . |
6 | ‘ I used to play quite a lot of football , ’ he explains , ‘ but all I was really good at was knocking the opposition over as a last-ditch defence . ’ |
7 | Oh ours was like that , you know , I used to feel quite a shame |
8 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
9 | I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops . |
10 | You used to come once a week for dinner |
11 | So w did you used to have quite a lot of customers who came up from th from there |
12 | ‘ We used to lie around a swimming pool in Peking chatting like the best of friends , ’ he later recalled , ‘ But it was all too sickeningly sweet … |
13 | Very , very high gear on it , we used to go out a couple of us |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
16 | We used to grow quite a bit of stuff on the land and er we lived . |
17 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
18 | in exchange and they used to do quite a trade in , cos a lot of them were quite skilled at making toys . |
19 | They used to travel around a lot , handing out leaflets and things . |