Example sentences of "used [verb] i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ My mother used to treat me like a stranger , ’ he reflected . |
| 2 | He used to like me I think , but to tell the truth , I did n't like him much . |
| 3 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 4 | ‘ You used to like me kissing you . ’ |
| 5 | But er I used to go I did n't eat with the men you were n't allowed to eat with the men you see , it was only the full men that sat round this table well |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sometimes he used to hit me , tell me I was worthless . |
| 8 | He used to swing me up onto his shoulders and carry me round … ’ |
| 9 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 12 | Every time we used to fight from then on , I used to pretend I was Johnson and the other kid used to say he was Sullivan or somebody . ’ |
| 13 | The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me . |
| 14 | What used to irritate me does n't so much any more , and even quite boring things , like doing the shopping , are almost fun . |
| 15 | It used to irritate me but now it just makes me laugh . |
| 16 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 17 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 18 | Erm and you know and I the thing that erm used to worry me maybe sometimes , was the acceptance of this as what they should be having . |
| 19 | Brown , who went on a one-day course at T IS before coming back and installing the system at Morgan Grenfell , is now teaching colleagues to use it , including unit manager Karen Goate , ‘ Computers used to frighten me , but not now , ’ she says . |
| 20 | It used to frighten me . |
| 21 | And those growths that used to frighten me , the moulds and fungi . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 24 | He bought the car off my boy i i it was worth five thousand odd , it was worth and he , he used to cart me about , see just you know , Steve did , before he , we got this money he used to go up to what is that ? |
| 25 | Everyone used to know me as Sheena Rawlinson , but now I 've got my name back : Martia Miller . |
| 26 | Her head was bobbing up and down now , and Peggy , smiling wanly , nodded in return , saying , ‘ Well , I ca n't remember what you did in those early years , Gran , but I remember how you used to bounce me on your knees in time with ‘ To ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross ’ . ’ |
| 27 | The girls used to tease me : ‘ Lynne , your baby 's crying ! ’ |
| 28 | My dad used to tease me to hell , warbling that song . |
| 29 | I ca n't carry equipment for a youth club on my bicycle , so Paul used to pick me up in his car . ’ |
| 30 | And mum , and Emma used to pick me up from school , primary school , and I was like , always last out . |