Example sentences of "and [pron] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | is it , ah , they used to be su , according to everyone he was such a so and so , he er , he 's , he used to be barmy , he was like the clo , close barmy man and he used to like chase people around with bricks and stuff and everyone used to hate him and like Julian and Andy used to beat him up all the time |
| 2 | Keith always had a reason , so we did n't mind that much , but both David and me used to get quite annoyed with Peter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 5 | I knew all about it in theory because I had a young Bhabi and she used to tell her friends about her experiences and I used to overhear ( laughs ) . |
| 6 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 7 | Cherry Vanilla and I used to take care of our time when we were n't rehearsing by pretending we were rock and roll journalists — which we were n't . |
| 8 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 9 | My brother and I used to have a joke — we saw how hard our father worked — that we would only consider medicine if we could become specialists in venereal diseases , because we would never have to get up in the middle of the night and we would never be out of work . |
| 10 | The W.C. , however , was outside , and I used to indulge in a small secret smile when , having crept out on a freezing night to the little ‘ necessary house ’ , I must needs sit facing an outdated calendar showing a picture of ‘ A Sunny Haven ’ . |
| 11 | Alarm clocks were unobtainable , so I had brought one from home , antiquated and enormous , with a bell like a fire-alarm , and I used to lie tense and rigid waiting for it to ring . |
| 12 | This was surely the coldest and draughtiest station in the country , and I always had to wait there about midnight ; and I used to pray that the train would stop with a door opposite to me , so that I should have some chance of getting on at all . |
| 13 | The following morning I went with my mother to the foot of the Pentland Hills near Allermuir , where Leslie and I used so often to walk , and there we paced up and down , talking and talking . |
| 14 | There was at the time a French popular song , wistful and haunting , and I used to repeat it in my mind like a rosary. : |
| 15 | . And when I was beginning to grow up and I used to visit her . |
| 16 | And I used to look at her . |
| 17 | And I used to . |
| 18 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 19 | I used to tease Shaun a bit and I used to ask for it in a way . ’ |
| 20 | The permanent conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra was Allard de Ridder , a tall Germanic type , and I used to feel rather sorry for him because he was so often being ‘ deposed ’ in favour of a guest conductor like Sir John Barbirolli , Dr Otto Klemperer , Sir Thomas Beecham , Leonard Bernstein or even Sir Ernest MacMillan from Toronto . |
| 21 | They come down then and says , ‘ Who 's broken my window ? ’ and I used to say : ‘ Yes , I broke the bloody window — go in the station and tell them you would n't put the light out , ’ and they got a summons on top of it . |
| 22 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sergeant and I used to go up there every night . |
| 25 | All your licensed premises on your area had to be checked at least once a week ( in uniform ) and the sergeant would pick you up and take you visiting these various posts , and I used to take a glass of beer . |
| 26 | Even then , Terry and I used to have arguments when one of us discovered that Gary had knowledge of things that only the two of us knew . |
| 27 | To go into Cambridge at this time on our brief off-duty periods was really a life-saver and I used to go whenever I could , very often alone . |
| 28 | The immediate outcome was that I now had someone to take me around , and I used to brag a bit about ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 29 | I have angina which is very unpleasant but I can move about more easily since losing a bit of weight and I used to suffer every night with heartburn but since having no fat I can honestly say I have n't suffered at all : … . |
| 30 | And I used to swallow up all those stories in the women 's magazines , which were very kindly saved for me by two ladies down the dale . |