Example sentences of "and he [vb mod] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
| 2 | And he ought to be terribly concerned about the acid rain that 's falling on Europe as well as what 's happening |
| 3 | He was on the dole for a long time and he used to just eat mashed potato and things like that . ’ |
| 4 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 5 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 6 | None of us mind him at all and he used to be a special friend of Minch 's . ’ |
| 7 | And he used to erm things you do n't see in allotments today , he used to build the clamps for the pits for storing winter potatoes and turnips and that sort of thing in the garden . |
| 8 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 9 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 10 | And he used to c take cartridges erm about an inch and a half thick and about three inches long . |
| 11 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 12 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
| 13 | Then I used to wait there for the Doctor , stop there and he used to , I used to pick him up and he 'd ride up the rough road till he got to his car . |
| 14 | Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them . |
| 15 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 16 | and he used to come home looking as white as a sheet sick to the teeth and he used to just go to bed and collapse in a heap , he is n't strong enough to do it and it 's pointless for him to try but other than that he can do anything he fancies . |
| 17 | Whitney right , and he was a wee small boxer and he used to hits them and going like that then ! |
| 18 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 19 | And he used to sort of be embarrassed about it . |
| 20 | I mean , I feel a bit , and he used to sort of denigrate it . |
| 21 | It 's a bit like a boxer dog because Derek 's sis sister had a boxer dog and he used to we used to walk along country lanes and then he 'd pi , he used to see something he used to go straight through the hedge ! |