Example sentences of "that [pers pn] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none . |
| 2 | The God of my far-off country must remember that I used to pray four times a day and still love me . |
| 3 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 4 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 5 | Experimentation was the method that I used to learn the carve gybe . |
| 6 | So absorbed , or intoxicated , was it that I used to photograph it with the other hand . |
| 7 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 8 | The wonderful City squad I coached , which included the talents of Franny Lee , Mike Summerbee , Colin Bell , Tony Book and Joe Corrigan were so dominant in those battles against United that I used to feel sorry for Matt Busy . |
| 9 | And it was n't Sky 's fault that I used to watch better football at Barnet for exactly the same price as the weekly rental price of a satellite dish . |
| 10 | As Mario tells it , ‘ there was no outward sign of any big problem , except that I used to think he got tired very easily for a guy his age ’ . |
| 11 | I looked for the knitted garments that I used to help her with but they must have all been sold . |
| 12 | Before that I used to have — and this is true — NME s smuggled into East Berlin via Poland . |
| 13 | Many of us got caught this way years ago , but I do n't think yarns for weaving are sold at Knitting Shows anymore — at least I have n't heard the complaints that I used to do . |
| 14 | There is no space to detail further the model that I used to pursue the problem that I had set myself . |
| 15 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 16 | So great was my obsession that I used to wish that one day I would develop my own American accent . |
| 17 | " I feel that cutting out dairy products has eased the feelings of irritability that I used to suffer from . |
| 18 | They , too , will owe a lot to the boycotters and sanctioners , including one in particular that I used to revile and later was honoured to be able to call friend — also a keen cricketer , a left-hand bat who as a schoolboy in Pretoria was thought promising enough to be headed for a higher grade of cricket one day . |
| 19 | But er I 'd two that I used to have on the wall at home I can remember . |
| 20 | But the highlight of it was that I used to get a ride on the dray and I used he he we used to finish up the round at the bottom of erm Road , and Street . |
| 21 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 22 | I had mine in a cone , with wafers stuck in the top that I used to eat it with , but Cati sat down and she had hers with a spoon , out of a glass , sitting up on one of those stools … . ’ |
| 23 | It distressed me so much that I used to keep indoors and go out only in case of necessity . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’ |
| 25 | But erm and then at during er before lunch and all that I used to have to go take a bucket and go to the smithy and erm as you may know , there 's a a cooling er tank beside in the in er beside every every every erm blacksmith 's fire and er you know to bo keep the er no t no to keep the nozzle of the |
| 26 | Er , well , erm , they could sort of do it , erm , I mean , when I leave er , a place that , house that I used to live in , I leave a forwarding address but no , I make sure , with the people that erm , take over the house , but they do n't actually give out my phone number . |
| 27 | When I was young , we had an old Victorian wardrobe with a mirror on it that I used to sing to . |
| 28 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 29 | no , so we did n't have an invite I know , I mean normally I 'm taken every year you know , there , to see the old time musical which is great and I look forward to that but cos I did n't get , get there and I love going to Leah Manning as I say we have dancing there on a Wednesday afternoon it 's great , I enjoy it ever so much and I meet all my friends there that I have n't seen for years , you know , that I used to go to clubs with and they 've all arrived there now you know it 's great to see them , I thoroughly enjoy it . |
| 30 | Can we just end with a a short story about the job that I used to do before I did this one . |