Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] [prep] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister used to borrow from me and I used to charge her interest . |
| 2 | I had very good girls really , I w would just just erm lost one of the ones that used to work for me . |
| 3 | My niece used to work for me too . |
| 4 | She used to work with me |
| 5 | He said well I used to work at I got it from . |
| 6 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 7 | And er they used to come to me and ask things about what they should do and did I think they had a claim for this and that you know , and I used to tell them you see . |
| 8 | now , I mean my girls used to come to me with boy , boy friends as they grew up and then husbands , but they always help , they always |
| 9 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 10 | He used to come after me for music lesson every week , I can always |
| 11 | He used to write to me about how it was best for Stephen if he got adopted , 'cause I did n't know what I was going to do with me life , I was n't settled and I 'd probably end up back in prison . |
| 12 | They used to write to me quite regularly Here you are . |
| 13 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 14 | And she used to clean round me and stuff . |
| 15 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 16 | " Mr. Andrew did n't like it — he used to talk to me about it , and say how unhappy he was . |
| 17 | she used to talk to me , well in the summer an that , you know , on about she 's , I do n't know |
| 18 | At one stage I thought he used to pick on me . |
| 19 | I mean , Mark used to pick on me rotten , and he was only four years older than me . |
| 20 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
| 21 | I treat him badly , as they used to do to me , and he suffers , as I used to . |
| 22 | It used to seem to me that the different ways I felt sometimes about ideas , courses of action and so on were like the differing political moods that countries go through . |
| 23 | ‘ My father used to read to me . ’ |
| 24 | From time to time Mr Salmon used to read to me from his morning paper , but as he could never find a mention of the Royal Fusiliers I did n't discover what the old man was up to . |
| 25 | He used to shout at me , and I used to shout at him . |
| 26 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 27 | But their attitude that you had to be part of their camp used to get to me . |
| 28 | Why was , that 's what really used to get to me . |
| 29 | Sometimes , they even used to laugh at me because I got so serious about athletics . |
| 30 | And er he he always used to say of me , he say , Well you know er he was on the Executive , he said of the Trades Council . |