Example sentences of "we used take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to take him for walks , and this could be embarrassing , for we had to shout very loudly in an attempt at conversation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yeah , right on the sole and cos we used to take them off the iron and put a bit of leather on and grease the uppers with neat's-foot oil and they were really lovely and warm in the winter . |
| 4 | but we used to take them to the pictures on Saturday afternoon my mum used to give me nine pence |
| 5 | Sometimes , he said we used to take them motorway he said to junction whatever at Dover and they 'd be somebody waiting there with the money give us the car we 'd go back to London and they 'd just take it up the . |
| 6 | When I was at school , we used to take it in turns to visit a former pupil , a woman in her twenties , who lay in hospital incurably handicapped . |
| 7 | And put it in bulk tanks you ken taking milk away down in a tank I mean we used to take it away in cans . |
| 8 | We used to take it in turns , did n't we , Ken ? ’ |
| 9 | We used to take it to vintage sports car events . |
| 10 | Well we used to take it in our stride , I mean I grew up with an old Victorian house with potent fires and you had keep the fires going either wise in the winter it was bitterly cold , it was nice and cool in the summer coming out of the heat . |
| 11 | Well , that 's the quickest way to do it , we used to hang one below the other on the dredger , be put up at sunset and we used to take 'em down early in the morning , but you always had , you always had erm navigation lights up , must |
| 12 | We used to take our basins and collect our supper when I was young . |
| 13 | We used to take our holidays on Inishbofin , it 's where I learned to sail . |
| 14 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |
| 15 | And then er we used to take us dinners to school erm whatever your mother had got to give you . |