Example sentences of "[that] it used to " in BNC.

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1 The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra .
2 I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it .
3 ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything .
4 THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th .
5 But er it 's not the road that that that it used to be .
6 So I just , it used to be , you see that it used to be W G and Sons .
7 ‘ It is n't the stigma that it used to be and — ’
8 A village which started looking into its own history has discovered that it used to be somewhere else .
9 THOUGH much smaller in numbers that it used to be , Courtaulds Italia has managed to weld together a team which blends experience with freshness .
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