Example sentences of "they used [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to bully him and tease him ; then one day on his way back from school they attacked him . |
| 2 | In the days when Romanians were still in a mood to tell jokes , they used to ask a rhetorical question : how long would it take for a Soviet expeditionary force to reach Bucharest from the Soviet border ? |
| 3 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 4 | But they used to ask me for things but I thought there were enough s erm shops here really . |
| 5 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 6 | They used to replace pepper when its price was high , and were called Guinea pepper because they are from West Africa . |
| 7 | Edward recalls this attitude clearly among the Swindon-Welsh cronies of his paternal grandmother : ‘ They used to remark how well my father was doing , my grandfather who had long been dead having only been a fitter ’ . |
| 8 | But this was because it was one-sided , they used to lock it from the outside and there was a catch on the inside as they could put in . |
| 9 | In fact they pay for the sort of thing they used to skive out of when they were at school . ’ |
| 10 | My mother was wild at the time , but that was mostly because when Denise 's family came to tea they used to lick the neck of the salad cream bottle . ’ |
| 11 | And then of course they used to iron them . |
| 12 | They used to talk to him endlessly about it , he said , so he grew up hearing about ‘ this enchanted world ’ which became for him rather like fairy stories for other people . |
| 13 | And I found months and months after that most of the boys that got on there had their fathers work there , who went to the office , or asked the Butties , they used to talk about Butties in the pit , and I found this was short for deputy . |
| 14 | how they used to talk . |
| 15 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 16 | Despite professional emphasis on treating each case on its individual merits , consistent similarities were found between social workers from different regions in the criteria they used to assess the likelihood of further sexual abuse . |
| 17 | I mean once you get er in the , say you get on in grain and you got leather shoes on , well you 'd roll but th when you got , when you got rope , these rope soles , cos they used to grip on the grain , they would n't slip about . |
| 18 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 19 | It seems to me they used to refer to ‘ employment for life ’ . |
| 20 | Where they used to rely on incessant effects , now they are n't afraid to leave gaps and swoon around in a beautiful noise of their own making . |
| 21 | And er they used to get them to take these pills they said and they used to drink a bottle of gin , keep drinking gin . |
| 22 | They used to drink a lot of beer in groups which I did n't like myself . |
| 23 | I mean men at the dockers that day they used to drink and drink heavy . |
| 24 | Yes , somehow they used to accommodate them but |
| 25 | They used to swing out themselves do you see , just open trigger handle for the barrel to open , they used to spring out , and then put the two new ones in you see and close it straight off . |
| 26 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |
| 27 | Oh on Mondays and Saturdays two or three times a week and it was er available for anyone that want to hold a dance they could rent it there was no jitterbugging it was just the waltz or foxtrot and two step and then we got er one they used to kick their legs about |
| 28 | Later , when their work had become completely Cubist , Picasso and Braque devised a more elaborate and sophisticated method of dealing with solid forms but the means which they used to differentiate between the parts of planes or an object or figure and the devices they used to reconcile it to the picture plane were , it will be seen , not unlike those which Picasso used so boldly here . |
| 29 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 30 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |