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Example sentences of "[pers pn] used work [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I used to work as a boy I did on .
2	laugh , unfortunately you ca n't erm ca n't erm when I was giving this similar lecture two or three years ago , erm there was er a student in the class she put up her hand she said yes , she said that 's absolutely right she said , what you 're saying about the female does n't have to submit she said I used to work as a , as a stable maid at Newmarket at a stud farm and she said er you 've got ta have five people for er er to cover a mare .
3	I used to work at and then
4	He said well I used to work at I got it from .
5	K. M. When I used to work on the dockside , it was a hive of activity , all the horses and the steam-engines parked along the street .
6	‘ I used to work on commercials for funeral parlours , ’ he went on .
7	I used to work on a service counter in the 5Os , and here I am back at JS still working on a service counter in the 9Os ’
8	I used to work on the ne , the ne er , drill .
9	I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape .
10	I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago .
11	I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme .
12	Er I was I used to work with a to an old lady and she passed off .
13	It 's it 's like I I better not say say this but Irishmen over that when when I when I used to work with Irishmen my word they was good Irishmen .
14	A girl I used to work with at the Beechams did like really big burps .
15	there was one bloke over in erm tha you know , with a man la , that I used to work with and he , he used to fly from Hollies , and he lost his plane one day and fle , flew out of range and er he he spent weeks looking for it !
16	Well well let's face it , one of the girls I used to work with going up , she never used a ordinary oven .
17	And I was speaking to Elaine today erm , over at Queensway , who , who I used to work with and erm , her erm nephew , ne niece
18	Oh well reply the girl I used to work with wrote to me this morning .
19	I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it .
20	I used to work for a young lady who loved roses , you see , and she had a lot in her garden .
21	‘ It was sixty years ago since I left this place , I used to work for the blacksmith . ’
22	‘ I used to work for the bugger — you know that , do n't you ? ’
23	I used to work for a certain er c er creamery there .
24	And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well .
25	I used to work for McGovern , who challenged and lost the Presidential election to Nixon .
26	I used to work for a furniture and I always had the King 's Lynn I think was always easier
27	I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing .
28	that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood !
29	I said that 's just down bloody road from where I , where I live like cos er I used to work for their rival , G E C well they were A E R when I worked for them .
30	I used to work in a factory making toy guns .