Example sentences of "he used [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to like me I think , but to tell the truth , I did n't like him much . |
| 2 | I thought , I 'll tell you who he used to remind me of , cos I sta he started coming to me when he had his first car and he reminded me yo ma , you know erm Seventy Seventy Sunset Strip ? |
| 3 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 4 | I always knew how much he earned , because he used to give me his pay note and I 'd to go down and collect it . |
| 5 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 6 | I did n't like him , he used to give me the creeps , but he was n't that sort . ’ |
| 7 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 8 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 9 | Chris was a learner driver at this time , and he used to drive me to hospital ; driving practice for him , but a great relief for me not to have to drive myself . |
| 10 | Sometimes he used to hit me , tell me I was worthless . |
| 11 | An Aberdeenshire small farmer had retired , but onto a seven-acre croft where ‘ they used to always have fences to mend and trees to cut down ; ’ ‘ he used to take me round on the barrow , when he was cuttin' down trees . ’ |
| 12 | He used to take me walking through the ditches in my bare feet , although I was terrified of frogs and newts . |
| 13 | He used to take me shooting and things like that … and I learned about politics and all the rest of it . ’ |
| 14 | My father was engaged in research in tropical diseases , and he used to take me around his laboratory in Mill Hill . |
| 15 | so I , I used to , he used to take me home and then he used to go and stand in the queue |
| 16 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 17 | Yeah , years ago my granddad remember , he used to take me to a pantomime something |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When I was on the motor cycles , he used to collar me to take him home for lunch . |
| 20 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 21 | He used to tell me it was never intended . |
| 22 | He used to tell me I was going to fail but I did so much work at home it was my best subject . |
| 23 | ‘ I expect they 're the same ones he used to tell me . ’ |
| 24 | And there 's another one somewhere cos my friend he used to come round here with his drugs , he used to tell me where they was you know . |
| 25 | He used to tell me about the odd trip to Eastern Europe on business . |
| 26 | He used to tell me I was less of a woman than most women ; that I was a woman in flesh but a man in spirit ; that I was an hermaphrodite nouveau , a third sex . |
| 27 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 28 | He used to tell me that ! |
| 29 | I resigned from the family planning about seven years ago when my husband retired , as I say because he used to help me very much and when he retired and my children had all married I felt it was time that I should retire too . |
| 30 | He was a dairyman , only he used to keep just one or two cows and he used to help me with spare time . |