Example sentences of "used say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's your picture , Jake , ’ she used to say over the laddie 's cot , laughing like a witch ; and I could 've killed her for it . ’ |
| 2 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 3 | You know what I used to say about him at school ? |
| 4 | ‘ That 's exactly what she used to say about you . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what they used to say about women ’ is not a proof that saying it about a child is false . |
| 6 | Judging from what your great-aunt used to say about you , I am sure you are as good as Jenny , and I would be glad for you to take out any of the animals . |
| 7 | When I think of it nowadays and I see children so very going round to the various churches that when people used to say about ministers well . |
| 8 | Oh no , you see he used to say about |
| 9 | and she said as , well what she used to say about it was nobody 's business ! |
| 10 | And er he he always used to say of me , he say , Well you know er he was on the Executive , he said of the Trades Council . |
| 11 | There is , as an elderly and respected aunt used to say of people about whom she had reservations , ‘ a want there somewhere ’ . |
| 12 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 13 | As my grandad used to say at the end of a grand day like that , " That 's another one they ca n't take away from you . " |
| 14 | ‘ The night is his hour , that 's what they used to say at the fairground . |
| 15 | A common leave-taking , they used to say at school . |
| 16 | Somehow I managed to remember that it will shortly be your birthday , so Many Happies , as we used to say at school . |
| 17 | ‘ You used to say at Talbothays that I was a pagan , do you remember ? ’ |
| 18 | Remember what they used to say at Pontins . |
| 19 | ‘ Gold Monogram at Only Five Ninety-Nine Extra , ’ it used to say on the sign . ’ |
| 20 | ’ Business before debauchery , Lord , as they used to say on Old Earth . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Rapids might look more exciting , but still waters run deep , ’ Jeff used to say to them . |
| 22 | ‘ I will never , never abandon these bright hopes , ’ he used to say to me with shining eyes . |
| 23 | That 's what I always used to say to the troops . ’ |
| 24 | December 22 , 1845 : People used to say to me , ‘ You expect too much — you are too romantic ’ . |
| 25 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 26 | A London postman 's daughter whose grandmother lived next door remembers how the old lady ‘ used to pass one or two little bits and pieces over to us , but she used to say to mother , ‘ I ca n't do much for the grandchildren because we have no pension at the end . ’ |
| 27 | The man used to say to him sometimes , when he saw him sat in front of the screen : |
| 28 | ‘ Why have you gone into the law ? ’ she used to say to him . |
| 29 | So I used to say to each crowd : ‘ Look , when you see me or see my inspector , move to the kerb and stay there . |
| 30 | I used to say to the wife : ‘ Look at this bloody lot . |