Example sentences of "[pron] used [prep] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to be the black sheep of the family , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It is a handsome conversion and gives a catholic flavour to a street which used to be the exclusive preserve of contemporary Western art . |
| 3 | They 'd bought this enormous house , Four Winds , which used to be the local manor or something . |
| 4 | It used to be the normal practice to adapt buildings for different purposes over their lives . |
| 5 | Oh yes , oh yes each side and er there , some , a few came round erm where it used to be the old picture house , a few came around up as far as Rushbrooks and erm further up towards erm now then The Central , there 's a school that they used to call it The Central but erm |
| 6 | Course , it it used to be the old rough gravel road . |
| 7 | But it 's too late now ; there , as in most parts of what used to be the Eastern bloc , telecommunications are being upgraded post-haste . |
| 8 | It has been installed in the Middle East and will soon be in use in what used to be the Eastern block . |
| 9 | The question dominated our discussions as we gathered in what used to be the long Chapter Room of the Knights Templar . |
| 10 | Adjacent to the monastery , in what used to be the Great Gate-house , is the Abbey House Museum with three reconstructed Victorian streets . |
| 11 | Now Lord and Lady Dormand live in what used to be the shrimp-sized county of Rutland smack in the middle of the most solidly Tory constituency in the land . |
| 12 | In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League . |
| 13 | The ladder is where the buckets er er run on you see that 's the ladder like that from what they call the top tumbler what used to be the top tumbler used to have five sides |