Example sentences of "[conj] he used to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't believe his wife 's 92-year-old grandmother , Wendy ( Maggie Smith ) , when she assures him that he used to be Peter Pan . |
| 2 | Another thing we had a barney with Peter about at one point , was the fact that he used to be too drunk on stage , ’ says Charman . |
| 3 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought he was quieter than he used to be . |
| 5 | He is obviously less discreet than he used to be . ’ |
| 6 | Mum and I go to see him sometimes , and we agree that he is a much nicer person than he used to be . |
| 7 | Cloughie , probably now less adaptable to sudden change than he used to be , has been hamstrung by the departure of two high class central defenders , whom he has been unable to replace despite having cash in the bank . |
| 8 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 9 | None of us mind him at all and he used to be a special friend of Minch 's . ’ |
| 10 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 11 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 12 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 13 | Twelve , thirteen , yeah cos he used to be on ten at the old place and he gets about two thousand more |
| 14 | But he used to be very different . |
| 15 | It was only about eleven now , something like that , but he used to be fourteen stone . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's because he used to be a sort of friend . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 18 | I suppose it was because he used to be so , you know , |
| 19 | Not as alive as he used to be , ’ runs the caption to one cartoon . |
| 20 | And here he was , a man turned sixty , still upright , but no longer handsome or as jolly as he used to be . |
| 21 | Alain Prost is not as quick as he used to be but was smarter , and Nigel Mansell is not the smoothest driver around but he has a lot of ‘ mechanical talent ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Not as alive as he used to be ’ |
| 23 | So they have to pretend he 's still ill and just as disagreeable as he used to be ! ’ |
| 24 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 25 | Do we really need him now , there 's no way he 's going to be as good as he used to be , and he 's probably the size of Mick Quinn now anyway : - ) |
| 26 | Cos he is n't home as much as he used to be . |