used to do it
Negli ultimi tempi non lo faceva quasi più.
Lately he hardly did it anymore.
— Hong Kong Express (1994)
Mary non porta gli occhiali, però lo faceva.
Mary doesn’t wear glasses, but she used to.
They did it much better than I did.
Una volta, poi, mi aveva portata con sé mentre lo faceva.
Once, he had even taken me along while he was doing it.