Example sentences of "and [noun prp] used [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She recollected , rather sadly , that she and Ben used to laugh a lot . |
| 2 | He told how she and Garry used to call round to his house ever Sunday for lunch . |
| 3 | Their family was really big and they were really noisy people and Nigo used to fancy everything in sight , he used to fancy me and chase me round the playground . |
| 4 | The British Museum 's Oriental collections are among the finest in the world , and Hotung used to visit the museum regularly to train his eye , always bringing with him a torch as the lighting was so dim . |
| 5 | Irena loved the fragrance , and Bella used to like it as a child , but now it filled her nostrils with the smoky smell of decay , of things drying up and dying . |
| 6 | A companion who would sit and chat with her , like she and Maisie used to chat ? |
| 7 | ‘ I think she did n't like me because me and David used to play games and things like that and act like we always had done . |
| 8 | is it , ah , they used to be su , according to everyone he was such a so and so , he er , he 's , he used to be barmy , he was like the clo , close barmy man and he used to like chase people around with bricks and stuff and everyone used to hate him and like Julian and Andy used to beat him up all the time |
| 9 | Benny and Eve used to tell each other in fits of laughter that he spent hours in his little room above the shop pressing all his ambitions into the suit with a damp cloth . |
| 10 | In Paris , Sally would insist , she 'd starve , and Walt used to claim that he 'd never be able to write anything good enough for acceptance by a commercial publisher . |
| 11 | Constanza and Simon used to call her Miss Mouse because she was so meek and mild and everything Simon did was perfect . |
| 12 | One of them , in actual fact , got into the hands of Lindsay Kemp and Lindsay used to use the album as background for his mime work at his concerts . |
| 13 | And Norma used to say , I do n't put them to bed with Charlie because they do n't go to sleep , in and out of bed she tried the bed 's . |
| 14 | Howard looks round the room , half-believing for a moment that the game he and Phil used to play might be coming to life after all . |
| 15 | My steelworker Dad ( Bill Bartles ) , Had Blythen and Fred used to take Had 's son , David , and myself on the 3.05a.m. ’ paper train ’ to Briggs in Lincolnshire to fish the River Ancholme . |
| 16 | I must admit I did recognize a few outfits that me and Nicola used to wear . |
| 17 | Yeah , and you remember me and Nicola used to have our special bowls , I used to have erm , Little Bo Peep and she had Mary , Mary quite Contrary well |
| 18 | Me and Nicola used to fight to get on that . |
| 19 | I thought Tracey and Sharon used to get drunk at lunchtime on a Friday and have a punch up . |
| 20 | I must say that the Methodists had the edge when it came to music and poetry , and Granda used to encourage me to take part . |
| 21 | We thought they must be making sure we had no hidden messages and Brian used to mock them , saying , ‘ The Kalashnikov is hidden in the bathroom . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And Billy used to go ? ’ |
| 23 | A friend of Billy 's and Billy used to stay with him some nights . ’ |
| 24 | Iain and Tommy used to drink with Christopher . |
| 25 | We used to perhaps , well we used to , then when that started Mr got a slaughterhouse , you see , down , we used to kill his stuff as well up , up in our slaughterhouse and Ernie used to do it , well he used to do the slaughtering and make the sausages |
| 26 | When these convoys were gathering she and Allen used to hang about the Inn staring at the strangers . |
| 27 | Petey and Bobbie used to dive off the top board like |
| 28 | He and Hubert used to argue about it for hours , but they were surprisingly good friends , for all that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The sun comes round in the afternoon and Gifford used to spend a lot of time here after his stroke . |
| 30 | Chris , I remember when me and Chrissy used to play with it tha Du mainly Duplo but we had some other tt like the Lego . |