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 . |