Example sentences of "used to say [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I think of it nowadays and I see children so very going round to the various churches that when people used to say about ministers well . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what they used to say about women ’ is not a proof that saying it about a child is false . |
| 3 | There is , as an elderly and respected aunt used to say of people about whom she had reservations , ‘ a want there somewhere ’ . |
| 4 | A common leave-taking , they used to say at school . |
| 5 | Somehow I managed to remember that it will shortly be your birthday , so Many Happies , as we used to say at school . |
| 6 | Remember what they used to say at Pontins . |
| 7 | ‘ You used to say at Talbothays that I was a pagan , do you remember ? ’ |
| 8 | And it is five , do you know what I mean it is like what I used to say to Rose . |
| 9 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 10 | I used to say to Emma , that little girl of yours she 's a proper little mother , must have been er , see in the future I should think |
| 11 | And I I er and not only that I used to say to teachers well if if they 'd ask him about and if he had anything er er and he 'd be bored . |
| 12 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandmother lived next door remembers how the old lady ‘ used to pass one or two little bits and pieces over to us , but she used to say to mother , ‘ I ca n't do much for the grandchildren because we have no pension at the end . ’ |
| 13 | erm Sam Sodding , and it used to , but I used to say to mother why did they call him Sam Sodding ? |
| 14 | You two are ‘ an item ’ , as they used to say in Noel Coward 's days ? ’ |
| 15 | Two hairs past a freckle we used to say in work er , school ! |
| 16 | And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog . |
| 17 | I think that the competition will continue to increase , I mean this is not an industry where one has a soft trick and a lie down as we used to say in shipbuilding , I mean it really is a grind and a slog , and I think it 's important for all of our employees to understand that er there never will come a point in time when we can say ‘ right we 've got that done , we can lie back ’ . |
| 18 | So you used to say in business letters things like I should be grateful if . |