Example sentences of "used [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overwhelming pain is a term used to emphasise a common result of chronic unrelieved severe cancer pain . |
| 2 | Savage dogs used to kill a protected species for sport . |
| 3 | He was unconventional — he always used to wear a woolly cap and refused to wear a tie . |
| 4 | I always used to wear a yellow overall , yellow . |
| 5 | They used to wear a lot of the collars with a , with a wing on the hard collar , you know , they used to wear a hard collar then . |
| 6 | And er of course everybody there were only about what half a dozen fitters in those days and erm er as a mark of their profession or trade in those days , they used to wear a white collar you know , with out a tie . |
| 7 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 8 | Although these experimental results are indecisive , the theoretical point remains — the latent inhibition procedure is not that used to train a conditioned inhibitor . |
| 9 | She used to come a long way , right from the top of to walk down to her Co-op , a long way . |
| 10 | Whatever the method used to discover a new site , the most important element is to record its position and any other details that might be apparent at the time of discovery . |
| 11 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 12 | FAR RIGHT A hand-made Bronze Age urn , originally used to contain a human cremation , after conservation and restoration . |
| 13 | Well that 's not as disgusting , I used to know a little kid that used to eat shit , by the way everybody , I just thought I 'd let you know . |
| 14 | And another sixteen percent is the other Ne Nestle coffee erm Blend Thirty Seven which I used to drink a long time ago and others and twenty two percent is er |
| 15 | For example , if the sale is a demerger or unbundling process used to counter a hostile bid , timing will be critical . |
| 16 | Stanley had the saw running — we used to sell a few logs in them days — when all of a sudden he hears an explosion and thinks somebody 's having a go at his precious Lagonda . |
| 17 | A wooden gate at the side of the house led to a neatly tended garden at the back , the lawn sloping down to the river , with a path of paving stones laid along the middle , ending on the edge of the waters at what looked like a small landing-stage , perhaps once used to moor a small boat or punt , but apparently ( as Lewis shone his torch across it ) not in recent use . |
| 18 | I used to edit a radical student newspaper . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to sail a little cat-boat in Penobscot Bay , but that was a long time ago . |
| 20 | Gloves used to handle a defensive skunk still stink of the animal 's scent more than a year after contact . |
| 21 | One of today 's most distinguished ( though not yet knighted ) evolutionary theorists so seldom cleans his glasses that his vision is probably a misty blur anyway , but he seems to get along pretty well and , by his own account , he used to play a mean game of monocular squash . |
| 22 | Like when I used to play a seeded player , I did n't think ‘ OK , I 'm going to lose to a seed ’ but ‘ All right — this is my opportunity to beat a seed ’ . ’ |
| 23 | He managed to increase the staff in two ways ; first by getting the endowment for the chair of Greek freed from the attachment to a canonry and then the endowment of the canonry used to give a second professorship of theology ; secondly by persuading the vice-chancellor to find money for a lectureship in New Testament studies . |
| 24 | Since about 1750 , except in the most expensive and exclusive type of work , most head and tailbands have been purely decorative and functionally useless , used to give a respectable air of antiquity and good craftsmanship . |
| 25 | Famous courtesans used to do a roaring trade in handkerchiefs scented with their secretions . |
| 26 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 27 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 28 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 29 | Da tells me they used to do a decent lunch at the chop-house by Holborn Viaduct . ’ |
| 30 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |