Example sentences of "you used [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You used to go with the boss . |
| 2 | It had three big windows with iron doors and white walls and you used to go into the house up a flight of steps because there were shops underneath . |
| 3 | You used to go in the fields and turn it and when it had been turned they used to start leading . |
| 4 | Er that was the name of the manufacturer an you used to buy them on cards , they were all sizes and the big one you used to put onto the tips of your your er soles just in on the tips , to save the front of the shoe . |
| 5 | What did you used to do on the on the bridge then ? |
| 6 | Cos , you used to work for the castronery had to pay you see , not the firm . |
| 7 | You used to walk to the store ; now you ride . |
| 8 | HOWARD : … you used to believe in the British Empire . |
| 9 | But when you used to look at the te , you know , the children 's television programmes , they 're |
| 10 | You used to meet in the Avenue , meet in the High Street . |
| 11 | Thinking of , for example , those summer vacation sessions you used to have with the Berlin players in Saint-Moritz in the 1960s and '70s , I am sure one day people are going to be looking back to all this as some great Golden Age that has now gone for good . |
| 12 | Aye , well I mean the social activities you used to have in the old place , were th were those any better than over here ? |
| 13 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |