Example sentences of "[pron] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I used to be . |
| 32 | In fact , every race , I used to be sick . |
| 33 | I used to be a partner in a wine merchants , and when we sold up I took all the best stuff . |
| 34 | ‘ I used to be very much of a guitar-turned-bass player , ’ he admits , ‘ although this past year I 've started listening to bass players properly . |
| 35 | ‘ Yeah , I used to be able to play with the slide at the 12th fret and reach all the way back to hit the top string at the seventh fret with my first finger . |
| 36 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 37 | I 'm not ashamed of my body as I used to be . |
| 38 | IN my previous life I used to be an Eldorado script . |
| 39 | I used to be 20 stone and now I 'm 15 stone , which is n't bad . |
| 40 | I 've given it up because I used to be a cheesaholic . |
| 41 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
| 42 | When I used to be involved in the old days , people used to say : ‘ I 'm from Coopers , I 'm from Peats , and this is the way we do it' ’ . |
| 43 | I used to be aloof because I did n't want people becoming too familiar . |
| 44 | And way back , you know I used to be a hair stylist myself . |
| 45 | I USED TO BE A FLOWER SAYS BECKENBAUER |
| 46 | ‘ I used to be good at running , trained three times a week and I was always competing . |
| 47 | I used to be a hairdresser . |
| 48 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 49 | I used to be the drummer for The Merton Parkas . |
| 50 | ‘ I used to be sad and pathetic , but I 'm not so miserable any more . |
| 51 | The fact I used to be married to Ursula is completely irrelevant . ’ |
| 52 | I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do . |
| 53 | I 'm improving — in fact I used to be much worse . |
| 54 | ‘ I used to be on the school lunch programme , you used to have free lunch in the schools , you know , then they wiped that out . |
| 55 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 56 | Before the clampdown , I used to be able to score round here , there was that many places that you can score really . |
| 57 | " I used to be active in the church but not now , there used to be hell on if I did things in the church . |
| 58 | When I was n't playing cricket for my school , I used to be the scorer for a small village club , Alwington . |
| 59 | Some years ago an advertisement aroused great wrath among the touchier members of the library profession : " I used to be the mainstay of the public library until I tried … " ( out of deference to the protesters , the brand name of the vodka in question is here suppressed ) . |
| 60 | I used to be an engineer , I know subsidence |