Example sentences of "[ex0] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On a Saturday night , there used to be at the bottom of Scotland Road — Byrom Street — all the Irishmen . |
| 32 | T. D. Christmas Boxes ? there used to be a read-out at the parade before Christmas period — the Chief Constable himself would come down and say : ‘ Be warned — beware of the man with the bottle ’ . |
| 33 | There used to be a mile-long queue to be made up . |
| 34 | At Hawkshead there used to be a famous market but after the invention of spinning machinery its importance declined . |
| 35 | ‘ There used to be a load of deer up there , but I expect they ate the buggers during the war . |
| 36 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 37 | It is this disembodied grin that explains the source of Lewis Carroll 's image , for there used to be a special kind of Cheshire cheese which had a grinning feline face marked on one end of it . |
| 38 | At the end of the reservoir dam there used to be a place called Blackton House which was rather crowded . |
| 39 | There is no longer the mass interest in football there used to be . |
| 40 | ‘ There used to be a Giles Williams column in the Life many years ago . |
| 41 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 42 | There were more of them than there used to be , he was sure of it . |
| 43 | There used to be a public house , the Rugged World , but this is now a most attractive private house . |
| 44 | There used to be two small hamlets just outside but part of the village , known as Mill Cottages and Pry Cottages . |
| 45 | ‘ Because there used to be a pond there , and that had water in it ’ . |
| 46 | There used to be a rack-and-pinion railway between Funchal , Monte and Terreiro da Luta . |
| 47 | There used to be a bloke who walked up and down Fleet Street in the old days with a fox on a lead , to prove how harmless they were . |
| 48 | There used to be a rather cosy assumption among audit firms that they would never actually go bust . |
| 49 | JUDGING BY THE evidence , a fireplace used for cooking with a salt recess beside it , there used to be a family living in the cellar of the rambling 16th century oak-beamed warren in Stow on the Wold , the heart of the Cotswolds . |
| 50 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 51 | Inspector Neville Oughtibridge , of Wakefield police , said : ‘ The job of policing the town centre has been made easier because there 's just not the amount of money around there used to be . |
| 52 | There used to be a ‘ chicken and egg ’ situation that complicated the provision of appropriate services for ethnic minority elderly people . |
| 53 | There used to be a programme that introduced new records on the radio , and my father was sailing somewhere and he had this little transistor all primed up , and he said proudly to his friend , ‘ This is my sons ’ record' and at that moment a wave hit the boat and the radio went overboard . |
| 54 | There used to be guns in the house , of course , but it never occurred to me to look if they were still there . |
| 55 | There used to be plenty of job security though now even those on contracts can be pressurised to leave . |
| 56 | Mr Short : There used to be a place in Scotland where kids could go to give parents a break . |
| 57 | And there used to be sort of a mush made from haricot beans too that people said were baked beans and they were n't it was just sort of white mushy erm white haricot beans with a sort of red colouring poured over the top . |
| 58 | There used to be safety catch mechanism |
| 59 | Erm , there used to be . |
| 60 | Sorry , there used to be a group at the College I think . |