Example sentences of "[modal v] to [be] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall 21-year-old striker used to be a Bangor favourite himself . |
| 2 | ‘ There used to be a Giles Williams column in the Life many years ago . |
| 3 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 4 | It used to be a Brooklyn thing , but now there 's kids who use the name and try to make up their own little Lo Life thing . |
| 5 | ‘ It used to be a Brooklyn thing ; that 's how Brooklyn used to stand out . |
| 6 | Well anything what was going , anything , change the buckets , on the that used to be every Saturday afternoons , they used to be home . |
| 7 | He used to be an RAF parachute instructor at Brize Norton . |
| 8 | At one time for example , you see , there used to be an Edinburgh district rate way back in history . |
| 9 | IN my previous life I used to be an Eldorado script . |
| 10 | Were n't very clean and er course Ipswich water 's all nice fresh water , they always filled up with fresh water at Ipswich , the Dutch boats which was the we had three boats there , they used to be the Ipswich , Ipswich Progress and Ipswich Pioneer . |
| 11 | There 's an old lady living next door to what used to be the Armitage house ; she was there when Mrs Armitage was alive and Inez was her companion . ’ |
| 12 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 13 | And the Argentine embassy used to be the London house of the 7th Duke of Richmond , one of whose great-grandsons was also among the guests : Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox , formerly our ambassador to Spain . |
| 14 | he wer a big fan of Real Madrid tha knows , that s where all white strip came from I wer a ball boy at Elland Road between 1972–74 ( its when they were building the kop to replace the mound a muck that used to be the Gelderd end ) . |
| 15 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 16 | Feast day in Bellerby used to be the Wednesday after Whitsunday , but in 1933 it was moved to Whit Monday as people no longer had a holiday on this day . |
| 17 | Mm , there used to be the Cardoma almost opposite here , it was an enormous cafe downstairs and an upstairs , and when that went there was nothing to replace it |
| 18 | It used to be the Smith boot that did most of the scoring from penalties and conversions , but against Newport his handling was superb . |
| 19 | Or it used to be the George . |
| 20 | A furniture shop of some sort there where the used to be the Spar shop I think , many years ago was n't it like a have n't been there for , probably about since , Morris 's day you see , and that service station . |
| 21 | A sartorial warning at this point — Center Parcs ' tabloid soubriquet ought to be the Costa del Shellsuit . |