Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 2 | Hill Street used to be a problem , with bucks and bobby-beating . |
| 3 | This particular store in Clapham 's Abbeville Road used to be an ordinary branch of Thresher . |
| 4 | I 've been racking my brain to remember what Sue Puffett used to be called . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's quite old now , of course , but Sir David Wyndham used to be a really big cheese in the business world … definitely a grand fromage ! ’ |
| 6 | It was a delicious cheese , as good as the true Glamorgan Caerphilly used to be . |
| 7 | Even the much vaunted Mick Jones collaboration sounds like Mick Jones used to be in The Alarm not The Clash . |
| 8 | Mick Davies used to be a prison warder at Long Lartin jail . |
| 9 | Cos he used to Alan Bleasdale used to be Peter Reed 's teacher at school and the |
| 10 | There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’ |
| 11 | Amos , Seth and Mr Wilks used to be like the Yorkshire version of Three Stooges , but now it 's all arguments and impending family feuds . |
| 12 | Nothing to be scared of , just a few old trees , though Uncle Nick used to be scared sometimes , on the way down . |
| 13 | Back in the good old days Turkey used to be part of what was know as ‘ Asia Minor ’ , or the ‘ Near East ’ , to distinguish its differences from Europe . |
| 14 | Husband John used to be a professional boxer … and has beaten former heavyweight champ Joe Bugner on more than one occasion . |
| 15 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 16 | Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes . |
| 17 | The 13th century Coaley Millpond used to be full of crystal clear water . |
| 18 | Ribeira Brava used to be like a Wild West or oasis town where buses and cars stopped for the occupants to take advantage of coffee , drinks and food and to fill their vehicle with petrol before venturing into the ‘ Beyond ’ or the ‘ Outback ’ . |
| 19 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 20 | Hong Kong used to be renowned for its bargains , but most prices there seemed pretty close to what they are in London . |
| 21 | SAD Sandy Millington used to be 19 stone and without a date , but now she 's the happiest heavyweight in the world . |
| 22 | It sounds crazy — as crazy as Steve Martin used to be . |
| 23 | Downland breeding species such as the Dartford Warbler , Grasshopper Warbler , Stonechat , Wheatear , and Stone Curlew used to be found in areas now covered by residential and industrial development , and some species dependent on beaches have been severely reduced , such as the Little Tern and the Ringed Plover . |
| 24 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 25 | It 's easy to see how important the Occupation Road used to be , because every so often the little becks that rundown from the fell to cross the track are culverted underneath the lane through well-made stone-lined tunnels . |
| 26 | Cos it , W W F , Paul Hogan used to be the champion |
| 27 | CHRIS SHEEHAN used to be a heroin addict . |
| 28 | The party 's just begun for Democrats in New Jersey : New Jersey used to be the butt of TV comics . |
| 29 | Radical dudes impress those bodacious babes by catching waves at Harvey Nicks and riding their planks all the way down to where Emporio Armani used to be . |
| 30 | No , no Auntie Annie used to be a stickler on |