Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] used to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 2 | Yeah it was something like that and he had a sister called Lisa who was about a year older than me and I used to be best friends with her . |
| 3 | I , I really jiggered myself this morning and I was only out about half an hour , you know , and I used to be able to do a full day ! |
| 4 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've changed so much and you used to be such a happy child . |
| 6 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 7 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 8 | Crane driver , television tubes , light bulbs , do you know these bulbs er , they used to come er , we used t they used to be made here , they used to be sent over to Holland and the brass bit used to be put in and the element inside and they used to go over there in cardboard boxes all loose and there used to be hundreds of them broken , they did n't , they did n't worry about it , as long as they , they reckon that as long as they get twenty five percent a hold they were satisfied and they were just in ordinary boxes , no paper in or nothing , just all loose . |
| 9 | And there used to be all them sort of things . |
| 10 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 11 | We could hardly get inside for rubbish and could n't see the floor , it was all dirt , and there used to be two or three benches on which we had to sit down ; then old Morgan would read the Bible to us and pray , we had to kneel down — oh what a dry lesson . |
| 12 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 13 | But there are other situations ( and there used to be many more ) in which the social status of the household is measured by the give/take transactions of the wife rather than of the husband . |
| 14 | That 's all been altered , i they 've all been made into shops and spoilt the you know , the and there used to be old 's , the shoe shop and Mr. 's watch shop and Mrs 's pastry shop . |
| 15 | There was a little post office there and there used to be some shop on there . |
| 16 | I think that 's where they got the idea and they used to be all leather , thigh boots . |
| 17 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 18 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 19 | And it used to be dark brown . |
| 20 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 21 | He says Fridays are unbeleivable through here and it used to be such a nice quiet town . |
| 22 | it 's forehead cos that 's what people say and it used to be fore head and they change all the time that 's why need to record the words and see how they 're being pronounced . |
| 23 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 24 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 25 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 26 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 27 | It was only about eleven now , something like that , but he used to be fourteen stone . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |