Example sentences of "[adv] she used " in BNC.

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1 apparently she used to go out with him before she married Derek , I think her first husband was called .
2 And but her her her grandmother used to go used to go and so she used to take my mother with you see .
3 Back home she used to love riding .
4 But not like she used
5 As we grew up she used to sometimes go a see an aunt of ours .
6 And if you played up she used to chuck the blackboard rubber at you .
7 Now she used to used a crochet hook , yeah .
8 Well she used to come in erm May to December did n't she ?
9 Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces .
10 Well she used to write she used to send these to the erm Dalesman man , that 's right the Dalesman , yeah that 's right
11 Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices .
12 And she said to me , she was from Manchester , well she used to talk Manchester Lancashire .
13 Well she used to have to give some give somebody sixpence which were a lot of money in them days .
14 aye , well she used to have a paper round
15 But she says that she 's years ago she used to put an onion in her ear or something .
16 She told him how she used to dread her time .
17 Sometimes she used to lie flat on deck , hoping the over-powering fear and nausea would leave her .
18 And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn .
19 And then she used to take all those together and she used to have to give the conductor so many tickets each time she went .
20 He was a young lad and he used to go out Wednesdays and do the other rounds and then she used to go out Fridays and do down the Piste and Barway and come back and then up to Dowfield , then home again and she 'd be home by lunchtime then on a Friday .
21 Then she used to go waiting , did n't she ?
22 and then she used be spotless at one time !
23 And then she used to take in all her washings , her babies was growing up .
24 No I do n't remember that , because we , we 'd be , we 'd moved from Street into Street and er I went to Road School first and er of course er my mother 's mother , that 's my grandmother , she was living with us then she used to live in Street .
25 erm or at least she used to when she was in the hospital .
26 And then on , at the back , there 's a little cottage near the start there she used to live in that little cottage .
27 I mean she used to toss , toss me off on the old and there 's , there 's and she used to sit on there used , used to sit on there she used to toss me off and I got this fucking as she 's tossing me off she did this love bite .
28 Remember when she used to stand there and madden you with her politeness and that voice of hers .
29 That was when she used to live in the TASS building on Tverskoy Boulevard .
30 My mother was was servant to , at the croft up there , about fifteen bob a week and she did n't know when she used to come home .
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