Example sentences of "i used [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to squeeze my spots but my step-sister used to love to do it . |
| 2 | I used to miss my mother and father dreadfully when I was younger , and now I feel a certain amount of guilt that I need them so little , think of them so seldom . |
| 3 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 4 | An old shepherd Harry Mason confirmed [ the ] shedding of the corn by the first combines : ‘ I used to turn my sheep out on to the corn stubble . |
| 5 | But I used to like my little Hillman Imp . |
| 6 | When I was in prison I used to grip my fingers and bite my tongue and think , ‘ Right , do n't do anything . ’ |
| 7 | And this Mr he was , he used to c he well he was collec calling f with Mr and he kept calling with me the same so I used to order my bulk in October to come in for Christmas goods . |
| 8 | Mm , I used to let my when it 's tutor period , get on and do some revision work |
| 9 | To avoid this aggravation , I used to spend my weekends going for long walks by the river . |
| 10 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 11 | ROS : ( Flaring ) I have n't forgotten — how I used to remember my own name — and yours , oh yes ! |
| 12 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 13 | And I used to see my dad all the time . |
| 14 | I used to put my cape on the railings . |
| 15 | With one , one man said I used to put , in the cold mornings I used to put my other hand at the bottom to see if I could get heat , but he could n't touch his fingers because they were so tender . |
| 16 | But I soon learnt to get those cows out without messing up my nice clean cow shed , what we used to do , because wanting to get the first one out very quietly , I used to put my hand on the tail , press the tail to the backside and push her out ! |
| 17 | ‘ I used to enjoy my work but I have n't had a proper job in ten years now , ’ he says . |
| 18 | ( I used to pick my spots and make them worse ) |
| 19 | When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park , where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk , and it was here that I first began to collect horse mushrooms . |
| 20 | I was really angry about what had happened to her and I used to take my anger out when I was in the car , driving really dangerously . |
| 21 | You know , when I used to take my parcels , well I used to say to him , How much would you give me if I come and work for you ? |
| 22 | To get round the maggot queues , which often formed at Billy Clarke 's and John Arthur Broadhead 's on Button Lane , Ernest Jowitt 's on Fitzwilliam Street and Maurice Jackson 's on Asline Road , I used to take my empty Ostermilk tin to the Hide and Skin Company in Sheffield 's Pond Hill . |
| 23 | I used to take my daughter , Emma , to children 's parties and I wandered around Central Park quite a lot . |
| 24 | About half and hour and er , I used to take my sandwiches with me you see you could n't , there were no canteens then , you 'd got to take it was a bottle no and flasks |
| 25 | I used to borrow my wife 's nutmeg grater and then I 'd grate up some of the root and feed it to 'em with the chaff . ’ |
| 26 | At first , I used to grind my teeth and think , oh God , we 've got to move on from Emerson . |
| 27 | As a child I remember I used to call my mother at home , ‘ mammy up the raw ’ , and grandma was ‘ mammy down the raw' … |
| 28 | I used to have a special gimmick — when I used to do my clog dance , I used to shout to the audience , ‘ Throw pennies , ’ and that 's what they used to do . |
| 29 | I used to do my homework lying by |
| 30 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |