Example sentences of "used [to-vb] at [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the conversation , he said ‘ I used to sit at my desk and fear — the unknown , or that we would all be killed . |
| 2 | My wife used to work at his house . |
| 3 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 4 | A teenage waitress has been left a £300,000 tip by a man who used to dine at her restaurant . |
| 5 | There are even indications that many of Picasso 's circle , the artists , writers and dealers who used to meet at his studio in the Bateau Lavoir and at the Steins ' house in the rue Fleurus , already saw Picasso and Matisse as the two rival personalities most likely to influence the course of twentieth-century painting . |
| 6 | I wince at her language as her father used to wince at her appearance . |
| 7 | I think I used to look at my mother like that . ’ |
| 8 | Teachers used to look at our hands . |
| 9 | And if the meat was not quite to perfection he used to grumble at my grandmother … |
| 10 | He used to call at her home most evenings and if she was out of London he 'd always telephone . |
| 11 | ’ I used to laugh at their antics . |
| 12 | He said I used to laugh at my Dad when he used to do these quizzes but when |
| 13 | And when we examine those repetitive media messages , we find amongst them those which dull , which desensitise , and which may ultimately disinhibit by eroding the internalised constraints which are part and parcel of the civilising process , constraints we used to learn at our mother 's knee , and which we discard at our peril . |
| 14 | Because cos I used to take it down there when I used to stay at her house . |
| 15 | He used to stay at his club during the week , and go home for the weekends . ’ |
| 16 | He knows nothing of Brigitte Bardot 's visit but confirms that President Bourguiba used to stay at our hotel , though he now spends two months every year at the Sahara Palace . |