Example sentences of "she used [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think she meant to — I spect she forgot , cos it 's a good brush and she used to use it all the time . |
| 2 | The illustrations were line drawings and she used to colour them in with crayons after each new plant had been correctly named . |
| 3 | She used to cheer us up . |
| 4 | She used to beg him : ‘ Come on , Dirkie , read something for me . |
| 5 | She used to th she used to sell it and er hap'orth of milk for a ha'penny . |
| 6 | And she used to bandage them tight |
| 7 | she used to chew it . |
| 8 | Dad was n't in the business and I think she used to miss it . ’ |
| 9 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 10 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 11 | And she used to clean them kill them and clean them and |
| 12 | ‘ She used to give me a piece of the dough when she was making pastry . |
| 13 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 14 | She used to give them Pedigree Chum too , but it was mostly cat food . |
| 15 | She used to give you silverweed for freckles and camomile for belly-ache . |
| 16 | She used to give you silverweed for freckles and camomile for bellyache . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Back at home , back at school and everything now , I do n't know , she never ever told me the story , she used to talked to Steffy she used to shut me off , and I thought I 'd |
| 19 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
| 20 | She used to say it was the best thing in the house . |
| 21 | She used to say I 'll have a piece of topside and I used to get it down and cut her a piece of topside and sausages as well and pork chops . |
| 22 | Her family had once eked a precipitous existence in similar circumstances , near Kiev in the Ukraine , and she used to say she saw her pre-nascent life in the film . |
| 23 | ‘ She used to say she was coming for a day and stay a week , ’ Rosemary said . |
| 24 | She wo n't have anything to do with the boy and my husband has said she used to mistreat him . |
| 25 | She used to enjoy it , but could n't he tell that she had changed ? |
| 26 | She used to call me ‘ my old mate ’ when she was a girl , you know . |
| 27 | Dick she used to call me . |
| 28 | The long lines on either side of his face — starving dimples , she used to call them — deepened . |
| 29 | she used to call us heathens cos we did n't wear vests . |
| 30 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |