Example sentences of "used [to-vb] [conj] i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 2 | Phil used to wait till I landed on the wedding |
| 3 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 4 | No , Olive that used to work when I worked for Laura Ashley 's |
| 5 | It is necessary to have a lot of different stages , so that you 're coming to it fresh each time , and I used to find when I was younger that that would mean putting it aside for several days . |
| 6 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 7 | It 's entitled Fair Do's : Studies in the Perception of Social Justice — the kind of thing Lynn used to buy before I met her . |
| 8 | Can we just end with a a short story about the job that I used to do before I did this one . |
| 9 | Yeah I mean you used to do that I mean |
| 10 | She stroked my hair then , very gently , the way she used to do when I was a little kid . |
| 11 | I hummed to myself , something I always used to do when I wanted to smile or laugh , but thought the better of it . |
| 12 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 13 | Right , now you 're doing what I used to do what I used to do when I started , okay ? |
| 14 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 15 | because I used to have when I used to go around these for breakfast I 'd always have an orange juice and my cereal and then my fried breakfast it 's the only time I 'd eat a fried breakfast . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’ |
| 17 | I used to think that I ought to do everything and then at least I could n't blame myself for not having done enough . |
| 18 | Some days I think I 'm only young — I fell straight away for her [ the baby ] — I used to think before I was married I 'd better get all the clothes I want now because I 'll never get them when I 'm married — but I was wrong , because I can really have all I want now … |
| 19 | Oh when I used to think when I was a kid and the stuff I used to eat , you know there 's |
| 20 | One seldom gets on well with one 's family if one has the impression that one is better than them , and I used to dream that I had been found , abandoned in mysterious circumstances . |
| 21 | Something interesting happened to me that I never really thought about , erm , but I used to get these dreams where I used to dream that I 'd be either falling off a cliff or driving a car and getting into an accident and like or driving off a cliff . |
| 22 | He used to say that I loved God more than I loved him . |
| 23 | But it was n't sex that really mattered to either of us ; he used to say that I was his insurance and consolation in old age . ’ |
| 24 | When I was younger they used to say if I ever did want to go to bed with somebody to ask to go on the Pill . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to faint when I was a young girl , just like that . |
| 26 | yeah , I did like the used to make but I used to like the |
| 27 | But even people who are concerned about me say things which seem to be complimentary ; a teacher remarks that I have become ‘ a sylph ’ lately , Mum defends me to my grandma as ‘ naturally slender ’ , and Dad makes jokes about my skinny legs — reassuring jokes , the sort he used to make when I was little , before I became ‘ a young woman ’ and embarrassing to him . |
| 28 | No one explains it to me , and I 'm bewildered ; I feel like a doll , lying on the hospital bed , paper thin — the little dolls I used to make when I was younger . |
| 29 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |
| 30 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |