Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [to-vb] i up " in BNC.
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1 | She used to look me up and down as if the Brownie uniform was really nothing to get excited about , and say smugly , ‘ Rainbows wear green Nuforms ! ’ |
2 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
3 | She used to ring me up , just to hear an adult voice that could talk . ’ |
4 | It used to crack me up . |
5 | It used to crack me up . |
6 | Oh it used to crack me up . |
7 | And it used to fill me up and I 'd |
8 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
9 | And he he used to get me up at seven o'clock , come to work for him . |
10 | He used to get me up at six to go in work for seven . |