Example sentences of "we used [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to invite in the other children from the yard and I would pretend to be our music teacher and conduct a lesson . |
| 2 | A classmate said : ‘ We used to talk about the affair all the time at first . |
| 3 | ‘ I hardly ever saw him , ’ she said , ‘ but we used to talk on the phone for hours . |
| 4 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 5 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 6 | We used to thrash in the winter-time : and then , of course , we had to do something else in the summer . |
| 7 | and what have you come down for a meal and we used to sit with the landlord having a having a natter whilst having a few few drinks and er yeah he he used to say er when we went up what do you fancy tonight ? |
| 8 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 9 | We used to sit in the garden for hours going over her various plans to get married . |
| 10 | We used to sit in the evenings and watch the lights come on . ’ |
| 11 | She remembers how ‘ in the evenings we used to sit by the fire and grandma 'd let me comb her hair . |
| 12 | Jake also had a share in a larger , sea-going vessel , which we used to visit in the harbour , examining enviously the neat bunks and tiny galley . |
| 13 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 14 | We used to feud about the oil-leaks which would drain down the side of the.little courtyard and get under and into my flower-pots . |
| 15 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 16 | ( It is not exactly the right answer because of the rough averaging procedure we used to arrive at the direct effects . ) |
| 17 | When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park , where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk , and it was here that I first began to collect horse mushrooms . |
| 18 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , excitedly , ‘ right back before all this , right back when we used to live in the old hole , I used to sit out at nights and watch the moon . |
| 19 | We used to live in the king 's house . |
| 20 | After his election , he went to the ‘ Milanese ’ church of San Carlo Borromeo and quite openly wept ( why not ? we used to pray for the ‘ gift of tears ’ ) as he quoted the words of Jesus to Peter : ‘ When you were young , you girded yourself and walked where you would ; but when you are old , you will stretch out your hands , and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go ’ ( John 21.18 ) . |
| 21 | what we used to do at the gym ? |
| 22 | Why ca n't we all afford our own homes , visit the dentists for treatment and change our cars , as we used to do in the Sixties ? |
| 23 | Its what we used to do in the 2nd div championship year , and even in the first division the first year up . |
| 24 | It 'll be interesting in the year two thousand and ninety to look back and see what we used to do in the nineteen nineties . |
| 25 | ‘ We used to swim in the river as a way of washing , but there is a small black fly there which can carry a parasite , a burrowing worm which can lie dormant in your body for up to two years , preparing to release thousands of offspring . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | We did n't go in always , we used to If we were on the top of the hill we used to watch from the top . |
| 28 | Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family . |
| 29 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 30 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |