Example sentences of "[noun prp] used to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watford used to be a team the big clubs feared in Cup football , but our record in recent seasons has been poor . |
| 2 | Jane used to be a girl guide and gained her Baden Powell Trefoil . |
| 3 | Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes . |
| 4 | England used to be a country with red pillar boxes and policemen with red noses and decent law-abiding citizens you could eat your dinner off . |
| 5 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 6 | This particular store in Clapham 's Abbeville Road used to be an ordinary branch of Thresher . |
| 7 | 19 year old Private Clifford Sampson used to be a painter before joining the army . |
| 8 | Hill Street used to be a problem , with bucks and bobby-beating . |
| 9 | ‘ Blackpool used to be a riot when we walked out , ’ said one Mite . |
| 10 | Seagal used to be a martial arts expert , so at least the stunts are worth watching , even if the principals are n't ( Seagal looks like Chuck Norris on Mogadon and LeBrock really should n't be wearing such a tight skirt ) . |
| 11 | Going a little bit further east , Rye used to be a very important port , and erm that was , what , in the sixteenth century certainly and possibly even later than that . |
| 12 | Similarly September , October and November used to be the seventh , eighth and ninth months , and March was the first month of the year according to the old Julian calendar instituted in 46BC . |
| 13 | Aileen 's amazed and Harry used to be a teacher , Bobby |
| 14 | Julian used to be a good-looking man somehow clouded , dispersed , by layers of fat and the radiation of pure thought ; now he is simply a cadaverous , eagly , extraordinarily randy man . |
| 15 | well he apparently spoke to erm , he had quite a lengthy conversation with Ron Atkinson apparently , cos Atkinson used to be the manager of Tettron did n't he ? |
| 16 | ‘ Well , Ralph used to be a tea importer , third generation in a family business . |
| 17 | Cos it , W W F , Paul Hogan used to be the champion |
| 18 | Just think — the days when Leeds vs Bradford used to be the big game of the season only a few years back ( One of which was my first leeds game ! ! ) |
| 19 | ‘ He 's quite old now , of course , but Sir David Wyndham used to be a really big cheese in the business world … definitely a grand fromage ! ’ |
| 20 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 21 | The toy section in this Oxfam shop in Oxford used to be a honeypot for children , but there 's not much to choose from in it now . |
| 22 | Mick Davies used to be a prison warder at Long Lartin jail . |
| 23 | Keith used to be the organist at St Mary 's in Woodstock . |
| 24 | Thursday used to be a good night in the paper for motors . |
| 25 | Old George used to be an old he was always keen to be executor for anybody you know . |
| 26 | There is a severe weakness in power , for Persia used to be the ‘ seat of mighty conquerors ’ . |
| 27 | CHRIS SHEEHAN used to be a heroin addict . |
| 28 | Feast day in Bellerby used to be the Wednesday after Whitsunday , but in 1933 it was moved to Whit Monday as people no longer had a holiday on this day . |
| 29 | No , no Auntie Annie used to be a stickler on |
| 30 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |