Example sentences of "[adj] i used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny I used to sleep on the side of banks , you could dig out on the banks , sleep , sit on the oh yeah . |
| 2 | Whenever mum was ill I used to get a little card and write a poem and put it on her pillow . |
| 3 | When you was little I used to make up stories for him did n't I June ? |
| 4 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 5 | Now I 'm like you , you 're like I used to be . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure I used to talk about other things , but I ca n't remember what . |
| 7 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 8 | Cos if I was really hungry I used to go upstairs , I 'd get all the frozen veg out , I 'd cook a bit of everything |
| 9 | I could n't type , we had n't got anybody doing the office work in the detective staff , the Detective Sergeant used to do most of it , if he was not available I used to have to get an older detective to type a report out for me , and because I was a junior , they were not so careful in typing my reports as they were theirs . |
| 10 | I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats |
| 11 | ‘ And you have no idea how isolated I used to feel . |
| 12 | was good as that other I used to get , and yet it was a lot more expensive ! |
| 13 | When I was young I used to spend hours lying beside a vacuum cleaner . |
| 14 | Black and blue I used to be . ’ |
| 15 | Everyday I used to cry . |