Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] used give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally my colleagues and I used to give demonstrations whilst the teacher observed and then tried to copy . |
| 2 | I used to give him the odd cuddle and I used to give him lifts home on my bike . |
| 3 | and I used to give it |
| 4 | Defending barrister Thomas Teague told Mr Jones yesterday : ‘ You used to steal things from your foster parents and you used to give them to other children at school . |
| 5 | Yes and you used to give us a lovely meal every night |
| 6 | They used to In the lace market there used to be factories what used to make lace er and er a lady used to er go and take fetch so much lace out and she used to give it out to people what wanted to do it . |
| 7 | It was Christmas time , and we used to give them oranges and sweets . |
| 8 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 9 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 10 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 11 | We used to put some straw down and the manger and we used to give them some hay and they 'd amuse themselves in there tied up . |
| 12 | I can always remember that yeah , I won a book called And then er when we came out pictures on Saturday afternoon , there always used to be a gentleman there and he 'd had a great big basket and he 'd like he 'd have a bag of sweets and oranges in these er basket and they used to give the children a bag of sweet and orange and they came out and see pictures for a penny . |
| 13 | Probably , during the war we did quite well , what with the black Americans because they were stationed at the towers and they used to give us kids chocolates and |
| 14 | Mr used to open up his dragons and start his steam engine and driving the organ , and he used to give an organ recital every wakes ' Sunday night for the cot fund . |
| 15 | Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday . |
| 16 | Well I kept well I I got on alright with him cos he I were a lot younger and he used to give me sixpence to go and get some ice cream so as I them would be on their own a bit you see . |
| 17 | It was the seven shillings wages I was worried about , but I used to give that to me mother . |