Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [noun prp] used " in BNC.
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1 | And the memory that William Temple used to meditate in the garden was not trivial to him . |
2 | Here it is , he said and pulled out a bottle of foul-looking medicine that could well have been the very stuff that Dr Jekyll used to turn himself into Mr Hyde . |
3 | He knows nothing of Brigitte Bardot 's visit but confirms that President Bourguiba used to stay at our hotel , though he now spends two months every year at the Sahara Palace . |
4 | And last night the Prime Minister 's despairing supporters were trotting out the ‘ back him or sack him ’ line that Mrs Thatcher used to fall back on when she was in trouble . |
5 | Granny Smith , a neighbour of Mrs Dyer in Reading , swore that a brick found holding down one of the tiny cadavers was the same one that Mrs Dyer used to keep her flat irons on . |
6 | In the Bishop Museum in Honolulu , I found the sixteen-foot board that George Freeth used to ride . |
7 | You 'll reme you 'll recall that Severn Trent used to subcontract their sewerage maintenance to the District Council . |