Example sentences of "[conj] they used " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 2 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 3 | The in-house cinema ( ‘ where they used to watch porn movies , ’ speculate the new occupiers ) , complete with massive Soviet projectors , is now used for film shows that would have caused apoplectic fits among the old inhabitants . |
| 4 | Where they used to fumble , they now rumble . |
| 5 | Where they used to rely on incessant effects , now they are n't afraid to leave gaps and swoon around in a beautiful noise of their own making . |
| 6 | Where they used to rest the the coffin for a m m and have a dram and a piece of cheese or some biscuits . |
| 7 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 8 | And just last Two year ago I met one of the older kind and oh she was n't pleased where they used to do their put their camps . |
| 9 | Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat |
| 10 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 11 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 12 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 13 | Where they used to ma , yes . |
| 14 | Ah well , you see they used to where they used to live opposite . |
| 15 | Because you 're seen in public and you do sing in public , there 's a lot of people that sing but as you say it 's sometimes just in their own homes or they used to but they would never sing in public , they used to sing in the choir . |
| 16 | There is an imaginary line , or they used to call it from Birmingham to the Wash anything below that is the south . |
| 17 | Oh I had about a shilling pocket money I think , although they used , they 'd fine you , they 'd stop money off you if you were late if you were a quarter of an hour late you could n't go in and erm until , and then you 'd got to explain to your mums , well that you were some money short you see , why is this , and we had to say well we were a bit late getting in when you started out soon enough you see . |
| 18 | I think perhaps on the whole people understand that better than they used to . |
| 19 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , RAF attitudes were changing : the disbandment of Fighter Command and the probable demise of the V Force made pilot seats in transport aircraft more attractive than they used to be . |
| 21 | The columnists on the op-ed pages are more bloody-minded than they used to be , but in its editorials the Times remains the voice of American public policy . |
| 22 | Now some have — and foreign investors , less credulous anyway , are more needed than they used to be . |
| 23 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 24 | In South-east England , some streams on chalk flow less than they used to do ; in part this is the result of abstraction . |
| 25 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 26 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 27 | Are people more or less ‘ in the know ’ about the external circumstances which affect them than they used to be ? |
| 28 | Ten per cent of Britons profess to eating meat only rarely and nearly 50 per cent agreed that they much less than they used to . |
| 29 | A&R people are sharper and more aggressive than they used to be . |
| 30 | ‘ Like a lot of things in the musical instrument industry , strings are much better value than they used to be . |