Example sentences of "[modal v] to take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early stages we were we you know used to take phone calls and take them at face value , and we got a phone call like this . |
| 2 | In summer , he used to take friends through the drawing room , out of the French windows and on to the terrace . |
| 3 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
| 4 | Karen I used to take Karen she was married to that English fellow . |
| 5 | Well I used to cycle from Gedling to Apsley , me debit was at Apsley and I used to have to cycle from there to Apsley and I used to take bit of food an and bread and cheese and pieces of anything I could pick up in me pocket , and I dare n't come home till I 'd got some business . |
| 6 | We used to take hay down to the cavalry barracks in Norwich . |
| 7 | And I unloaded at Mr Riggs on Norwich Hill ( he used to contract for all the horses with the post-office ; and we used to take hay there ) , and I pulled the load into his yard ; took the horses out , and put them into this load what my uncle — what they sent away . |
| 8 | We used to take showers together in my apartment and then wander around naked until we were dry . |
| 9 | She used to take life for granted . |
| 10 | I mean they used to take things er the wedding ring , the jewellery if they 'd got any , towels , sheets , er suits , shoes , er did n't did n't want to sell them , did n't want to get rid of them , they just wanted to borrow money on those , and he used to charge you interest and ticket money when you took it in , and then you 'd got to pay interest when you took it out as well so it was , they were on a good thing . |
| 11 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 12 | I used to take Meals on Wheels to him when he got past caring for himself . ’ |
| 13 | Nor was every man assessed on landed income an owner , for some used to take leases so as to be able to sublet them for profit . |
| 14 | He used to take drugs . |
| 15 | And er I he used he used he u used to take lunch he would n't he would n't take tea dinner he used to have like to have tea in a bottle . |
| 16 | And erm so she used And then sh I used to take lunch for father and I could n't find him . |
| 17 | Yeah I used to go to playgroup when er she used to take Adam and our , I used to take our Lee up . |
| 18 | ‘ It used to take minutes for our morning report to take trial balances from every ledger on the system . |
| 19 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 20 | So we hired the fiskflug , a float plane used to take fish from Lappish settlements to market and the outside world . |
| 21 | ‘ We used to take picnics out there , ’ said Bella . |
| 22 | That used to take card of many Saturday mornings . |
| 23 | We used to take handful at Powerjets but they said |
| 24 | Joyce used to take Luke , but people kept stopping her to admire him and generally go gooey over what a beautiful specimen he was — or should I say ‘ is ’ . |
| 25 | Cos when I , I used to take Tim , it used to be very safe then , the only danger we seemed to be in in those days was catching cold . |
| 26 | His brother Mike used to take Barbie out on his motor-bike . |
| 27 | I attended the funeral and for a long time afterwards we , as a family , used to take flowers to the grave . |
| 28 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
| 29 | Her host , Laszlo , an ex-accountant , used to take action directe by tossing down the remains from his dinner plate of fish to the cats waiting beneath the balcony . |
| 30 | There had been no buying or selling at Seamer for very many years , but in 1987 hundreds of gypsies arrived with the intention of reviving the horse trading which used to take place . |