Example sentences of "who used to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 3 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 4 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 5 | There is Barnabas , who used to be a rich , landowning Cypriot Levite : Symeon , called ‘ Swarthy ’ , who seems to have been a Negro ; Lucius of Cyrene , no doubt a Jew from the dispersion in North Africa ; Manaen , who was educated in court circles alongside Herod the tetrarch ; and Saul of Tarsus , the Jew from the Levant who had studied under Gamaliel . |
| 6 | Can I say so from a similar point of view , I knew somebody who used to be a butcher . |
| 7 | Des , who used to be a goalkeeper on Stoke City 's books , turned on the style with some continental soccer skills to entertain the crowds before netting from the spot . |
| 8 | And they got a stockbroker , someone who used to be a stockbroker , actually managing the whole practice . |
| 9 | There was a man a Mr down in the North End Leslie who used to be the apprentice he took |
| 10 | And Lazlo Heltai , who used to be the Director of Music at the university , still is the Director of the Brighton Festival Chorus . |
| 11 | Yeah well there was one main test pilot that 's right and other people like , who used to be an instrument gang as well , well I do know this fella Cyril he was a dental mechanic in Walsall before the war and he came in there and he was an instrument mechanic and he used , he used to go up with the test pilot to actually test the instruments in the other compartments in the plane or cockpits just to see how they were reacting under operational conditions . |