Example sentences of "used [to-vb] and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to sit and watch him for hours , painstakingly working on a painting , and , following his example , I would push myself harder and harder to make my own drawings better . |
| 2 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |
| 3 | And er course summer holidays we always used to go and spend them with granny and granddad . |
| 4 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |
| 5 | We , we always , we were lucky we ha knew a man named he lived on and he was a butcher in his rights , his own rights you know , just like and , and but er , me dad 's brother or somebody knew him and , and he used to come and do it for us like , you know . |
| 6 | There were several others who used to come and see me in Baldersdale , particularly after the first television programme went out in January 1973 , including some of the nurses . |
| 7 | Yeah and my sister in law used to come M my brother 's wife used to come and help us with the cleaning at night . |
| 8 | It was a case of , I mean we used to start and wash them at three o'clock in the morning because t you had to start then because you 'd never get it all done . |