Example sentences of "you used to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bad news that one , but you used to be pretty friendly , did n't you ? ’ |
| 2 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 3 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |
| 4 | You used to be so good at that . |
| 5 | Well you used to be as cute as they were , you used to watch fingers , you did n't get them rattled . |
| 6 | You used to be more fastidious , used to be above servants — ‘ We must not exploit them , ’ you told Hector once — how we laughed over that ! ’ |