Example sentences of "i used " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to meet him most often in the museums and galleries fixed in rapt contemplation of pictures with that grave , searching look which was one of the beauties of his face . |
| 2 | I used to watch television and think ‘ I want to do that ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 4 | ‘ It will do , ’ I used to say . |
| 5 | I used to be an art historian . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I used to teach . |
| 7 | ‘ A mad professor I used to know . |
| 8 | I used to teach Italian architecture many years ago and , I do n't know , I like it there I suppose . ’ |
| 9 | I used to be a professional cleaner — I do n't want to get her into any trouble , I … ’ |
| 10 | Sorry , a folly is a technical term I used to use in my art history days . |
| 11 | ‘ I used to be an art historian , ’ I said . |
| 12 | It 's near the bottom end of Ladbroke Grove , almost due south of where I used to live up until about this time last year . |
| 13 | It reminded me of when I used to give people money just to make them go away again . |
| 14 | I used to do this with my more experienced pilots using the Falke motor glider on the runway at Lasham . |
| 15 | I used to help there as a boy . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to bite my nails . ’ |
| 17 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 18 | The God of my far-off country must remember that I used to pray four times a day and still love me . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 20 | Bud Booth , who I used to ride for , came in later . |
| 21 | A fairy-story , even , I used to think . |
| 22 | ‘ Then when I started travelling seriously I used to go and be nice to my bank manager , which was n't so easy . ’ |
| 23 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 24 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 25 | I used to tell my secretary : ‘ That can go in ‘ The Thing' ’ . ' |
| 26 | on live work I used to get 20 per cent . |
| 27 | I used to stay until Claudette Colbert was unrolled from the Persian carpet , then I left . |
| 28 | I used to go back home via the local Underground and I 'd take six of our Irish doormen with me , all of them six foot three , and they 'd take the rollers from the roller towels in the Gents and they 'd stand around me , and we would go out in a ‘ flying wedge ’ . |
| 29 | Cinemas had their own magazines : the Gaumont , Watford , had its own magazine ; the State , Kilburn , had its own magazine , and I used to write for them and did verses . |
| 30 | When I was older , eight or nine , I used to take a large piece of plasticine to the pictures and make what was appropriate . |