Example sentences of "used [to-vb] them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 2 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 3 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |
| 4 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 5 | old cart tyres we used to split them up the middle and made shoes . |
| 6 | We used to sell them in the Store . |
| 7 | Into these , just a crate , and they used to get the old pigs and they used to shove 'em in there , shove the trap down , and they used to load them on the ships , they went back to Poland . |
| 8 | You used to buy them from the chemist . |
| 9 | Oh we used to play them in the streets or anywhere like that . |
| 10 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 11 | And they used to put them in the christmas pudding . |
| 12 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 13 | I recall many years ago a lot of people used to go on bicycles and they used to leave them in the front of those houses that are just in . |
| 14 | Dressed up and I used to take them and I used to leave them in the kitchen and the the head kitchen maid er the head kitchen maid w went and took them in . |
| 15 | But I used to bring them in anyway , and I used to let them out the back door if the housemother came in . |
| 16 | And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know . |
| 17 | And if we 've got the project quality plan right there should n't be any problems or queries and it did remind me of this Australian er project manager , who I 've mentioned to one or two other people over lunch , who used to sit in a great , a great office , running multimillion pounds ' project and when people came in to complain to him , he used to refer them to the plaque on the wall which said R T F C. |
| 18 | In this area there was also a great amount of seasonal labour-migration : farm-workers going to sea after the harvest for the home fishing — half-breedfishermen they used to call them in the Saints district of north Suffolk ; and the fishing-chaps who bought or hired a horse or donkey and trap to hawk fish round the villages during the herring season ; and there was an associated dealing in horses from Scotland to satisfy the seasonal demand . |
| 19 | Foggy mornings , you used to gallop them in the fog , the best , gallop horses in the fog . |
| 20 | And he he used to cook them and do you know we we used to pluck them and we used to roast them by the fire in a |
| 21 | Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages . |
| 22 | We used to get them by the , twenty at a time all sorts of , because people just absolutely loved |
| 23 | They used to have them in the Summer , ready for the Winter . |
| 24 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 25 | They used to have them in the in the houses you see . |
| 26 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 27 | We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying . |
| 28 | Elaine used to deafen them on the side there ! |
| 29 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |
| 30 | Henry Higgs noticed these stones too and how they ‘ used to take them off the windowsill on the way back one by one ’ . |