Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that the pre-eminent strategy the subjects used to guess ethnicity was to make a simple correlation between speech style and ethnicity : LE for white speakers , Creole for black speakers . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was younger , I used to wish Bartholomew was my brother because , God forgive me , I did not like Ralph . ’ |
| 3 | The orange lifeguard tower where Eddie used to keep watch was empty ; a sign on the side announced : No LIFEGUARD ON DUTY . |
| 4 | I used to think sex was all about condoms and fellatio and getting girls to show you their underwear . |
| 5 | ‘ They used to think schizophrenia was a simple malfunction of the brain ; an imbalance in certain chemicals — dopamine , glutamic acid and gamma-amino-butyric acid . |
| 6 | I always used to think Bach was a bore . |
| 7 | As well as showing how far flint was traded in prehistoric times in Britain , the analyses have shown that the largest proportion of the flint used to make axeheads was deliberately mined , in many ways like the hard rocks used for axes ( see page 106 ) . |
| 8 | What used to throw people was interest rates going up and down but fixed-rate mortgages have sorted that out . ’ |