Example sentences of "and [pron] used [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I used to wake up like two feet off my bed , like I du n no my , my body |
| 2 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 3 | Sergeant and I used to go up there every night . |
| 4 | And I used to go up there and tell him what I wanted and as far as keys and anything like that , got sent to me he would . |
| 5 | We used to go once a month you know when the girls were in the Guides , used to go for their parade service and if you were at Auckley , Malcolm and I used to go up with Heidi did n't I ? |
| 6 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 7 | He er , Hugh and I used to come up every day do what we could , you see , in those days if you had a stroke you had to lay there till you died . |
| 8 | But when we were young , she and I used to get up to the most dreadful pranks . ’ |
| 9 | I find it very difficult to breathe , but it was quite good in those days because they used to pay me well and I used to get up very early in the morning and go round with my dogs and that . |
| 10 | And I used to swallow up all those stories in the women 's magazines , which were very kindly saved for me by two ladies down the dale . |
| 11 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 12 | And you used to get up and light the copper fire , fill this old copper , which held about ten gallons , and then put plenty of stack o slack on it . |
| 13 | He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction . |
| 14 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 15 | Willy used to come from school and she used to come up me mum 's house with a , so could have a suck of the tit he would 've come from school and you 'd expect him the night at me mam 's house |
| 16 | And she used to make up these stories and tell them to me . |
| 17 | I was in the central Cubs and we used to go up there to lime pits and round Lingley Woods you know on days out tracking and all that sort of thing . |
| 18 | we used to have nets and nets of oranges and we used to get up in the morning and just squeeze them |
| 19 | There were brilliant sessions all the time , on buses and at airports — we used to do an awful lot of hanging around at airports and we used to end up having great crack , even doing session on airplanes . ’ |
| 20 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 21 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 22 | Our detective office was two flights of stairs above the enquiry office , and they used to ring up to our office and say I 'm sending a Mr upstairs , he 's lost his bicycle from the library , I 'm showing him up . |
| 23 | And they used to come up to the maintenance workshop |
| 24 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 25 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |
| 26 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 27 | I know Mr used to go up there cos he was still at school then and he used to go up there cos he was doing nothing but whether he he wants her to get a job , well he . |
| 28 | Old Charlie 's car wooden spokes , wooden wheels solid tyres and he used to sit up right in there same as I am now , like in a box and the old chauffeur was the chauffeur driving along . |
| 29 | Anybody want anything he was there , his name was and he used to run up like er tally , tallyman he was you 'd pay at the most ten shillings down about two and six a week , something like that . |
| 30 | you see , and he was , he , he probably brought me into the world , you see but , er you see , and Mrs erm , you see , she was married to Doctor and he used to come up to see my father and we had a different door then door being that 's got a yale lock on now but he he 'd say , hello Frank , you know always so you got , oh he was so nice and it was such a shame that he died |