Example sentences of "[conj] i used to " 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 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 5 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’ |
| 9 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I do n't care , Morrissey is still wonderful and I still love him as much , if not more than I used to . |
| 14 | Now , I treat athletics more as a hobby than I used to . ’ |
| 15 | I suppose it 's something to do with me being happy , being married , knowing where I am : I can see things more clearly now than I used to . |
| 16 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 17 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 18 | But if anybody has got a real problem I get more emotionally involved than I used to . |
| 19 | I still miss my favourite sister , who died over twenty years ago , but of course I think of her much less than I used to . |
| 20 | Less than I used to . |
| 21 | All it needed was a bit of tumbleweed to make it seem more deserted than it really was and I used to just fight against that dissatisfaction . |
| 22 | And I used to . |
| 23 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 24 | And I used to like the gates , where because sit on it , get on the gate and get on the horse 's back . |
| 25 | And er the other daughter , when we lived up , she had to go there for six er , and I used to ge had to get up , and bring her right down the lane , and then I 'd got to walk back , up that lane meself , you see ? |
| 26 | And I used to er very often go up to her house and she 'd come down to my house and er . |
| 27 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 28 | It was difficult cos you only had what they we call the joystick behind me and I used to work that and I used to be |
| 29 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 30 | Do n't know very much now but er it er became most monotonous and I used to and I used to like |