Example sentences of "used [verb] my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , I used to grind my teeth and think , oh God , we 've got to move on from Emerson . |
| 2 | We we used to have lots , they used to go my father used to put er a a bird a bird trap er bird second time to catch and we used to pluck them and and them and roast by the fire you know . |
| 3 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 4 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 5 | You see , my father drank a lot , and when he drank , he used to hit my mother , and me too , sometimes . |
| 6 | and the thing is Lyn the thing that er used to piss me off was she used to wear my knickers and I ca n't stand that . |
| 7 | ‘ I used to enjoy my work but I have n't had a proper job in ten years now , ’ he says . |
| 8 | And I used to see my dad all the time . |
| 9 | I used to miss my mother and father dreadfully when I was younger , and now I feel a certain amount of guilt that I need them so little , think of them so seldom . |
| 10 | I used to borrow my wife 's nutmeg grater and then I 'd grate up some of the root and feed it to 'em with the chaff . ’ |
| 11 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 12 | ‘ They used to pull my leg , but once they 'd had a go they soon changed their minds . ’ |
| 13 | She used to pass my window for many weeks after that and not come in . |
| 14 | I 'm more decisive , but I 'm also less confident because whereas before I used to hide my lack of confidence behind a kind of arrogance and bravado , now I 'm not afraid to show my weaknesses . |
| 15 | ‘ But I just used to hide my glue bag in the toilet before I went in to see my social worker . ’ |
| 16 | I used to know my semaphore I 'm , I 've never really mastered the morse , but I used to know the semaphore |
| 17 | She used to know my mam th she had she had lo lots of kids . |
| 18 | She is called Josie ; she used to visit my flat with her boyfriend , to stage violent , public rows . |
| 19 | face us all , and the whole Christmas used to be , we used to tease my brother cos he was the young one , you know , and she 'd say , no , no , do n't tease the little , oh , no do n't say that , and the whole of Christmas , was Aunty May sitting on a sofa , being fed brown ale in never ending glasses , not adding one single thing to the whole of Christmas at all . |
| 20 | ( I used to pick my spots and make them worse ) |
| 21 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 22 | When I was in prison I used to grip my fingers and bite my tongue and think , ‘ Right , do n't do anything . ’ |
| 23 | And my mother , they were keeping six cows there after churning , old Jane made the butter and er taking it to erm Mrs from who used to buy my grandmother 's butter my my mother took her stock as well on the Thursday to market . |
| 24 | More or less , but I used to buy my bacon from 's . |
| 25 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He used to help my brother out quite often . |
| 27 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 28 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |
| 29 | A girl from the magazine used to do my shopping and in the end I managed to do it myself , going by taxi and feeling terrified all the time . ’ |
| 30 | and I told him about the , him taking the wagon off me , he said that 's bloody stupid that cos Nick used to do my run , work it out for me |