ana poland "used to have made" I cannot think of a situation in which I would use this verb phrase. ana poland "used to make"? He used to make pancakes every Sunday.
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ana poland "used to have made"I cannot think of a situation in which I would use this verb phrase.
ana poland"used to make"?He used to make pancakes every Sunday.
ana polandI've heard it on a TV show. Two women talk about soup: "Apparently something his mother used to have made for him when he was a little boy"That strikes me as meaning 'something his mother had made/prepared/ready for him'.
ana polandI get it now. She didn't make it herself, she had someone else do this.That makes sense - it is the causative use of make. The pattern normally has the object before "make" like this: