Example sentences of "he [modal v] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife was anxiously encouraging him to strengthen the acquaintance as they were influential people , but he was not yet sufficiently advanced in his profession to feel he ought to push for invitations . |
| 2 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 3 | He himself was so influenced by Luther that he used to pray for the abolition of the Pope 's authority in England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He used to baby-sit for her . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He used to drive for you . ’ |
| 8 | He used to lie for no reason at all , as if he enjoyed it . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ But he used to work for the gas board , did n't he ? ’ said the boy . |
| 13 | ‘ He used to work for Ralph Connelly . |
| 14 | Shildon reminded him that it was not wholly the fruit of his investigation for Eliot , he had a head start because he used to work for MacQuillan in Detroit . |
| 15 | He used to work for an outfit in the City called Even Rudergrams , but about a year ago the market fell right out of the bottom of the stripping kissogram girl ( or boy ) business , and the company packed up and moved into something else . |
| 16 | Yeah , he used to work for . |
| 17 | He used to work for Liverpool City I think , and he was called Dave there . |
| 18 | No , he used to work for |
| 19 | He used to play for Hull I think did n't he ? |
| 20 | And he used to come for years ? |
| 21 | He used to come for holidays as a wee boy . |