Example sentences of "but [pron] used to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 2 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 3 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 4 | It was only about eleven now , something like that , but he used to be fourteen stone . |
| 5 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 6 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |