Example sentences of "[adv] used [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well apparently used to be trained . |
| 2 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 3 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 4 | Not just sales , so it should n't just be the appointments in your diary , and a lot of you will not used to be keeping a diary as well . |
| 5 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 6 | always used to be known as Dolly . |
| 7 | It also used to be thought that pillow lavas could form only at great depths below the surface . |
| 8 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 9 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 10 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |
| 11 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 12 | Mr John Bates for the prosecution [ when six football supporters were charged ] said : ‘ While a football match years ago used to be regarded as one of the perks of the job by the police , it is now the reverse . |