Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 2 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 3 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 4 | Public are n't allowed in like they used to be before the war . |
| 5 | especially when we used to be at factory , because we used to come down Phillip 's yard , did n't |
| 6 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 7 | And I was downstairs and they used to be up upstairs was the man what cut all the stuff up , do you see ? |
| 8 | I mean , there are , but they 're not real ones , not like they used to be . |
| 9 | I do n't think it 's possible to try and keep it exactly as it used to be , nor do I think you 'd want to . |
| 10 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 13 | I 've given it up because I used to be a cheesaholic . |
| 14 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 15 | Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) . |
| 16 | The door is great I mean it 's bigger actually the doors and windows are bigger now than they used to be , are n't they ? |
| 17 | But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be . |
| 18 | now than it used to be , or is it just about the same ? |
| 19 | And I and I do n't know whether they still have the wooden lockers now but they used to be , have to be all scrubbed out every week . |
| 20 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 21 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 22 | He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility . |
| 23 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |
| 24 | It 's not as bad now as it used to be |
| 25 | You know , I mean , it 's not manned nearly as often as it used to be . |
| 26 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 27 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 28 | He says Fridays are unbeleivable through here and it used to be such a nice quiet town . |
| 29 | You wo n't because I used to be |
| 30 | The organization and mobilization of the electorate in the United States to turn out to vote and to maximize the party 's chances of success is probably not carried out as well as it used to be , as is evidenced by the decline in turnout since the 1960s ( see table 26.2 ) . |