Example sentences of "[that] used to [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Jane 's twenty six , and before that used to be a hairdresser , as you can tell . |
| 2 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 3 | " That used to be a fence , which was good because we could let the little boy play out there . |
| 4 | My father used to have what they call a lead line that used to be a wire with a all marked with feet and fathoms on and sound and |
| 5 | I mean that used to be a college in |
| 6 | ‘ That used to be the case , but these days I 'm a little better organised . |
| 7 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 8 | He surveyed the scene of human chaos and the mud patch that used to be the floor , raised his voice above the high-pitched din and yelled ‘ Who told you to come in here , you silly children ? |
| 9 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 10 | maintenance workshop and be done , that used to be the job for the fitters and blacksmiths . |