Example sentences of "[noun sg] i used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 2 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 3 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 4 | Though not with the confidence I used to . |
| 5 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 6 | Although it is traumatic , having one 's life turned upside-down like this , discovering I 'm not the person I used to be . |
| 7 | IN my previous life I used to be an Eldorado script . |
| 8 | at school I used to trying to do something er |
| 9 | That I do n't always feel up to … the way I used to . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is n't necessary to explain things in the way I used to . |
| 11 | No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it . |
| 12 | At one time I used to quite often go to the Castle . |
| 13 | The fact I used to be married to Ursula is completely irrelevant . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm improving — in fact I used to be much worse . |