Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] they used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 2 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 3 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 4 | What I do n't understand if all they need to do is revert back to what they used to be and come straight through on the on the ordinary route . |
| 5 | But he gave up on that to tell us this — things ai n't a patch on what they used to be . |