Example sentences of "[pron] used to put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night I used to put the pillow on my head and just hold it so as I could n't hear . |
| 2 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 3 | And you used to put the pick blade into it and it was A piece cut out of it , th the blade you see ? |
| 4 | So you used to put the , drop the bucket down the side |
| 5 | ‘ If we had been away and had a long night-time car journey ahead of us , ’ he said , ‘ we used to put the children in their pyjamas and wrap them in blankets before we started . |
| 6 | ‘ For instance , there was one little overdubbing room in Air studios which was tiny — it was about as big as an armchair — but we used to put the AC30 in there and put the mic facing the window and get this amazing sound . |
| 7 | And er we used to dig down , we used to put the the dogs in , used to have about two or three terriers . |
| 8 | And a chain there and we used to tie her to this chain so that she could get into the box and out again , and then we used to put the cubs there first in the straw and then we used to put her there do you see . |
| 9 | But we used to put the oats to the mill and the and the corn for getting it bruised for feeding the horse and the cattle . |
| 10 | We used to put the fire engines in it as well . |
| 11 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |
| 12 | That used to be with er a piece of net in and across the top used to have two piece of wire , one way , and two piece the other and you catch a crab open the crab open and they used to put the crab between there and the whelks used to feed on the crab and then when you pulled it out , they all went to the bottom of the net . |
| 13 | And when they picked us out they used to put the rubber on the ground pick the dirt out of their feet and put it into their manger , not throw it away , put it into their manger because horses love to lick mud . |
| 14 | ‘ The one whose tomb they used to put the arms in . ’ |
| 15 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 16 | Mostly he was pretty damned tense , and incompetent in consequence , and he used to put the fear of God into me constantly . |
| 17 | Well , my grandfather he used to put the claw of his hammer under the hoof , and he picked it up . |