Example sentences of "he used [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All sorts of different people he said I would never ever buy any beans he said cos of this chappie who used to work they used to unless you change over the tin or something he used to spit in the tins . |
| 2 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 3 | He himself was so influenced by Luther that he used to pray for the abolition of the Pope 's authority in England . |
| 4 | Now Owen shared a similar cultural background to Morrissey — he used to hang around the same clubs , he was singer with the post punk band Manicured Noise , a band often linked with Morrissey 's beloved Ludus , and the feature was a fascinating if bewildering jumble of nostalgic bonhomie . |
| 5 | He er he used to work from four in the morning till ten o'clock at night and he used to doss in the factory , did n't come home , |
| 6 | Legend has it that he used to angle in the Adige river and that when the waters flooded , many years after his death , they were stopped from breaching the walls of his church by prayers to his memory . |
| 7 | He used to sleep in the church during air raids so that he could put out the fire bombs . |
| 8 | you know that band , yeah well , we used to have one come from the down , he used to tap onto the erm tried to get off and everybody stuck to it . |
| 9 | Driving this , he used to go on the by the by the clock you know in them days , the first motor . |
| 10 | remember he , he used to go with the |
| 11 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 12 | For the Opens he used to go to the course a week or so in advance and play on his own . |
| 13 | He used to go to the station and watch the farmers coming in ; and if he saw a likely one or one he knew , he used to approach him and try to get him to a pub to have a drink and talk things over . |
| 14 | and you would he used to go to the house and |
| 15 | he used to go to the house and he 'd measure up the body and I |
| 16 | When only five years old , he used to go into the bakery with his father before school just for fun . |
| 17 | ‘ He used to go into the bathroom and lock himself in there for hours . |
| 18 | He used to go into the market with him . |
| 19 | Ca n't bear angry voices , first he used to go underneath the rocking chair |
| 20 | And my father s he er he used to go in the Plum Tree and one of the landlords there he 'd say er , Tom lend us a quid . |
| 21 | No , we bought them all secondhand well they used to come round with this , not secondhand stuff but all new stuff and he used to go round the dock selling different er water boot socks and sweaters and he dealer . |
| 22 | And he used to go round the side get through bottle a day . |
| 23 | He had a favourite song he used to sing in the old days — ‘ It 's a Sin to Tell a Lie ’ — and I shall always associate it with him . |
| 24 | I started coming just after Mike came — that was four seasons ago , and Martin he came two seasons ago and he used to live in the same street as me . ’ |
| 25 | The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy . |
| 26 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 27 | ‘ He used to sit in the garden and go to sleep or drink hundreds of cups of tea . |
| 28 | ‘ Once upon a time , when Daddy was a little boy , he used to wake in the night and cry . |
| 29 | when I got there , several times he used to scruffle into the er packing room and come out with those two , three of those well a couple of those large sheets of brown paper that they pack , yeah , pack the few boxes in |
| 30 | You see he used to get over the stick pretty often , if you understand what I mean by over the stick ? |