Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] used to give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember what your mum and dad used to say to you all those years ago because , those old adages that they used to give you as kids , certainly rings true . |
| 2 | I used to give him the odd cuddle and I used to give him lifts home on my bike . |
| 3 | and I used to give it |
| 4 | Defending barrister Thomas Teague told Mr Jones yesterday : ‘ You used to steal things from your foster parents and you used to give them to other children at school . |
| 5 | Yes and you used to give us a lovely meal every night |
| 6 | They used to In the lace market there used to be factories what used to make lace er and er a lady used to er go and take fetch so much lace out and she used to give it out to people what wanted to do it . |
| 7 | It was Christmas time , and we used to give them oranges and sweets . |
| 8 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 9 | We used to put some straw down and the manger and we used to give them some hay and they 'd amuse themselves in there tied up . |
| 10 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 11 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |
| 12 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 13 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 14 | I always knew how much he earned , because he used to give me his pay note and I 'd to go down and collect it . |
| 15 | I remember at the Uni when we used to give we used to put stamps on people , you know , |
| 16 | It was a lot easier it was a lot easier when they used to give them to you over the counter . |