Example sentences of "[pron] used [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do . |
| 2 | I used to be right tanned skin . |
| 3 | I used to be quite good at |
| 4 | I used to be quite big and not exactly overweight , but largish . |
| 5 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 6 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 7 | " If people said " Oh no — I do n't want to do that " I used to be so surprised . " |
| 8 | I used to be very good at this , I use to . |
| 9 | It is true there was a lot of housework but I used to be very lonely . |
| 10 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 11 | You were only a baby , I used to be very frightened . |
| 12 | Yet I do n't think I used to be very naughty . |
| 13 | In some cases , for example the smoke pollution which used to be especially acute in winter when smoke and fog mixed to produce dense and harmful ‘ smog ’ , tougher standards have led to dramatic improvements in environmental quality . |
| 14 | She used to be absolutely gorgeous . |
| 15 | Since she 's gone there 's been a gap … it made my life better , because — she had a garden I could use … and it was like a job — I felt I was led to do that job … and she used to be so pleased to see me , she used to almost embrace me with tears in her eyes . |
| 16 | She used to be so lovely ’ |
| 17 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 18 | You know she used to be so petite , but god them damn legs on her ! |
| 19 | And she used to be so pretty … ’ |
| 20 | Bad news that one , but you used to be pretty friendly , did n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | You used to be so good at that . |
| 22 | Well you used to be as cute as they were , you used to watch fingers , you did n't get them rattled . |
| 23 | You used to be more fastidious , used to be above servants — ‘ We must not exploit them , ’ you told Hector once — how we laughed over that ! ’ |
| 24 | Everything used to be really difficult to get hold of . ’ |
| 25 | There was a lot of stress on resources , and by resources I do n't just mean books in libraries , I mean staffing resources primarily … and we used to be very fierce about the quality of course leadership , for example . |
| 26 | ‘ There used to be this old-fashioned clothes shop on the Corso , ’ she went on more quietly . |
| 27 | Now there is another , another part it 's very nice and that is round Lane and er Road and all round there used to be very nice at one time . |
| 28 | They used to be extremely good value ; now they are eminently ignorable . |
| 29 | They used to be absolutely beautiful there but they 're crap now ! |
| 30 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |