Example sentences of "used [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know Mr used to go up there cos he was still at school then and he used to go up there cos he was doing nothing but whether he he wants her to get a job , well he . |
| 2 | And then er then when her husband died , he er we went out We used to go out together cos me husband never went out much . |
| 3 | Ah he used to come up here when he was a wee boy with his granny . |
| 4 | Ordinary kids might go robbing or beating up old ladies , something like that ; I used to come down here 'cause I knew that was n't the right way to let out the aggression . |
| 5 | and there 's all sandy wadders around that the , sandy wa sandy wadders that the goats had made and we used to run down there when there was air raids . |
| 6 | My dressing-up box — I used to dress up long after everyone else had grown out of it — Mum got embarrassed , as if I was retarded . |
| 7 | He and I and a few other people used to hang around together when we were students . |
| 8 | And then we used to listen with our ear on the ground and we could hear where the dog was do you see , and then we used to dig down there because we knew it was fighting there with the with a vixen do you see . |