Example sentences of "[vb mod] to take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was older , eight or nine , I used to take a large piece of plasticine to the pictures and make what was appropriate . |
| 2 | So we used to take a big old transistor with us and put it on the back shelf . |
| 3 | We used to take a basket and trudge over a mile to a huge horse chestnut tree that grew just past Petersfinger on the Southampton Road , its branches stretching right across from side to side . |
| 4 | All your licensed premises on your area had to be checked at least once a week ( in uniform ) and the sergeant would pick you up and take you visiting these various posts , and I used to take a glass of beer . |
| 5 | Edwards used to take a nail onto the field with which to assail the seam , but that was not the only close sailing in which they indulged . |
| 6 | I used to take a couple of tablets an hour or so before the programme , to make sure there was no spasm during transmission . |
| 7 | And er nearly every boy used to take a handkerchief along with him to the , that was to the Christmas party because that was the only party you had a meal at school . |
| 8 | Similarly , he used to take a healthy interest in his wife 's bowel movements , as is meet . |
| 9 | ‘ But we used to take a lot o' pride in the hay , and it was all trussed up with — good tradesmen trussed it up , you know . |
| 10 | We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off |
| 11 | Used to take a load of that to one part of the woodlands . |
| 12 | The mowing used to take a week , now it just takes a couple of days . |
| 13 | Used to take a a basket with your bottle with tea and that in it to my father when we was . |
| 14 | Used to take a time just to get home at night ! |
| 15 | My brother used to take a comb to school in his sports bag and when he was walking to school he goes |
| 16 | The master was a toffee-nosed southerner , used to take the pi — used to make fun of our accents . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We had an old tom cat who used to take the fish — ’ |
| 18 | In the summertime , we had a bus come regularly and we used to take the residents out , just a few . |
| 19 | Anyway they would land down at our place most weekends , because we used to take the Darlington and Stockton Times , and they would all be smoking their pipes and talking , asking , ‘ What hast thou fresh , now ’ and catching up on the comings and goings of Baldersdale . |
| 20 | ‘ He used to take the mickey out of me something awful . |
| 21 | ‘ He used to take the mickey out of me something awful . |
| 22 | ‘ All the older pros used to take the mickey out of us , but then one day in a practice match Ian went past Jim Cannon , who had been at the club for ages , and he did n't like it . |
| 23 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 24 | One top dealer used to take the odd afternoon off , and secretly work for another licensed dealer nearby , taking his commission payments there cash in hand . |
| 25 | Yes er but I do n't think he knew what I did , I think he thought I used to take the boiling water upstairs you see int he bedroom and er I think he just thought I was sitting on it to open the womb . |
| 26 | And they used to take the gin and these pills and you know . |
| 27 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 28 | And I Oh I I ca n't remember any anyway we used to take the clothes basket . |
| 29 | Children used to take the clothes basket . |
| 30 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |