Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 2 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 3 | The illustrations were line drawings and she used to colour them in with crayons after each new plant had been correctly named . |
| 4 | When I used to get all excited about the projects you got involved with years ago , you used to slap me down with that . |
| 5 | And then you used to mix it up with bran and oats and cake and that sort of stuff , for the horses . |
| 6 | Bunkers , coal , they all coal furnace you see , and we er they 'd come in and we used to fill them up with coal , whatever they wanted lot of that went over the side coal , beautiful coal that was . |
| 7 | I mean they were lovely boots I mean a pair of water boots three pounds twelve and six and we used to put them , er make 'em soft , we used to do them over with text oil . |
| 8 | It was so small if you did n't pay the rent they did n't evict you — they used to flush you out with ferrets . |
| 9 | According to the agreement Giorgio , Anna 's little boy , spent a couple of months each year with his mother and they used to send him over with a nurse-maid and a courier . |