Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm an actress , or I used to be . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a model , or I used to be until I married . |
| 3 | ‘ I work out with weights — or I used to . |
| 4 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 5 | Where we used to b boil the water . |
| 6 | that 's right where we used to perhaps |
| 7 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 8 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 9 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 10 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 11 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 12 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 13 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 14 | Where they used to ma , yes . |
| 15 | Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir . |
| 16 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 17 | Or it used to be so . |
| 18 | Or it used to be the George . |
| 19 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 20 | Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none . |
| 21 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 22 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 23 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 24 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’ |
| 26 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 27 | I used to walk along there to see these rabbits I think the name was and they , it was a barber 's shop that had got these sold all sorts of pet things and that I used to , then I used to come home that was my Saturday morning , but I always used to go in up to the news line . |
| 28 | I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do . |
| 29 | Yeah but they , Ben and this bloke Phil that I used to s be seeing , the one that yeah , that one erm have got this |
| 30 | I do n't care , Morrissey is still wonderful and I still love him as much , if not more than I used to . |