Example sentences of "he used [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as soon as she puts her head down out for the for the dog do you see , fighting , he used to put this V on her back , right at the back of the the the neck . |
| 2 | He used to take some wool , but mainly he was there to sell and his cart carried samples . |
| 3 | He used to take this affair round various conferences and demonstrate to all and sundry that the crystal could be repeatedly bent to a strain of 2 per cent which is equivalent to a stress of about 600,000 p.s.i . |
| 4 | ‘ He used to watch most nights , apparently , ’ said William . |
| 5 | And he used to go to these houses Dunoon and them and er all the way down and around the promenade around the south parade and er and he used to go these houses with all these and then there were some er black and white minstrels in the valley . |
| 6 | And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then . |
| 7 | He used to lift this door up with his stick and just put it inside and light it . |
| 8 | You remember , he used to do those tricks with matches . ’ |
| 9 | He said I used to laugh at my Dad when he used to do these quizzes but when |
| 10 | The weather was bitterly cold , and because there was no heating in Dana 's little room he used to spend all day , and nearly every night , in my warm apartment . |
| 11 | He used to get this brush handle and shove it in between the belts , like that , and twist it off like that . |
| 12 | See it 's funny , he used to think all people just , he used to say , oh he 's doing that for show . |
| 13 | Yes oh yes and er he used to buy some bullocks from Mr Ro Mr La from Upware . |
| 14 | However , many Christians nowadays , even though they might admire and approve of Locke 's preparedness to make faith reasonable , would not be happy with the particular arguments he used to establish that reasonableness . |
| 15 | He used to bring these tubs down into a long turnout . |
| 16 | and in one of the rooms he used to have these girlie pin-ups of the dame , these portraits of all these women he used to fancy in a few years time . |