Example sentences of "that used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " That used to be a fence , which was good because we could let the little boy play out there . |
| 32 | Crane Holdings are what is left of Crane-Freuhauf , the well-known trailer manufacturers that used to be around . |
| 33 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 34 | ‘ the relationship that used to be called that of master and servant . |
| 35 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 36 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 37 | Although at sixty he was becoming a little stooped , and his hair and beard that used to be jet-black were turning to silver , the force of his personality was undeniable . |
| 38 | While many of the older farm workers nostalgically regret the passing of horses , none regrets the way in which mechanization has removed much of the physical effort and routine drudgery that used to be involved in working on a farm . |
| 39 | There used to be er a fish shop and er that used to be called 's that fish shop did . |
| 40 | If there is one unchallenged law of personal computing it is that , given half a chance , they will make something that used to be simple into a completely bewildering nightmare ! |
| 41 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 42 | Indeed erm I can say this now er that at that time , unknown to the top management of I was buying large quantities of leather from my old firm it into the town , right past the front door of my old offices which were now the hea the local headquarters of our and selling them , literally , within sight of the building that used to be the place where I operated from on their behalf . |
| 43 | I mean that used to be a college in |
| 44 | There was the the cod liver what would for animals , that well , the method that used to be used , put it into the copper boiler . |
| 45 | I ca n't ever see the factories coming back that used to be with , you know they 're all be smaller work loads now |
| 46 | They , " she waved her hand towards the door , " They will pull her away from her , take bits of her that used to be all ours , and she 'll be like a visitor here . " |
| 47 | My father used to have what they call a lead line that used to be a wire with a all marked with feet and fathoms on and sound and |
| 48 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 49 | Well anything what was going , anything , change the buckets , on the that used to be every Saturday afternoons , they used to be home . |
| 50 | maintenance workshop and be done , that used to be the job for the fitters and blacksmiths . |
| 51 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 52 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 53 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 54 | Well you had a ho used to have a hoop net , a a and that used to be a re like with a hoop . |
| 55 | And they used to run from here to Harwich , Felixstowe , that used to be their run , all run by the you could you could get a bus oh you could go down go on them boats and you go to Harwich , Felixstowe and then get off at Felixstowe and come on the bus if you wanted to . |
| 56 | That 's right there 's a that used to be an old meadow , that 's all it used to be , course now , they 've got a nice football pitch on it now . |
| 57 | That was because I mean you take now the , the , the Dredging Company what they call the in their funnel they used to have erm a square and in halves that used to be a blue and a yellow . |
| 58 | Well the cr the jib went up and then it came down like that , well that swan neck on the cr that used to be what they call level oven , cos as y as you lift your crane out , so this part would come up . |
| 59 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 60 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |