Example sentences of "and i used " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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secret smile when , having crept out on a freezing night to the little ‘ necessary house ’ , I must needs sit facing an outdated calendar showing a picture of ‘ A Sunny Haven ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was at the time a French popular song , wistful and haunting , and I used to repeat it in my mind like a rosary. : |
| 14 | . And when I was beginning to grow up and I used to visit her . |
| 15 | And I used to look at her . |
| 16 | And I used to . |
| 17 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 18 | I used to tease Shaun a bit and I used to ask for it in a way . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sergeant and I used to go up there every night . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The immediate outcome was that I now had someone to take me around , and I used to brag a bit about ‘ my ’ Corporal . |
| 28 | 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 : … . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When we first met my fiancé and I used to make love every day and often in really unusual places — in fields , on the beach , in the car and so on . |