Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Beyond the mill race , what once used to be a pool , with depths of 10 feet of water , a glistening of rainwater on the dried bed enticed two swans to think they were back in business . |
| 32 | Jim Eldridge , the writer , used to be a teacher . |
| 33 | The huge Georgian house , set in acres of gorgeous countryside , used to be a sort of evangelical holiday retreat for young lads , and I spent a couple of winter weeks there . |
| 34 | What used to be a real chase had become a ritual . |
| 35 | She used to be a good cunt , now she was a dressful of dead fishmeat . |
| 36 | On a piece of rocky coastline and out of what used to be a quaint old fishing village , has sprung one of the liveliest resorts in Corfu . |
| 37 | ‘ She used to be a mechanic before coming here . |
| 38 | There was an added difficulty that the three of then , would break into convulsions of laughter , verging on hysterics , with Hopper somewhere off camera rolling around in the bushes and , according to Nicholson , ‘ totally freaked out ’ while Jack was forcing himself to be relatively straight , do his serious acting and hold the whole thing together : ‘ This used to be a helluva good country … ’ |
| 39 | Well , it turned out he used to be a ‘ pretty successful writer ’ , but then he found he was just getting into ‘ things that were too weird . ’ |
| 40 | The Emblem of the Holy Trinity ( lo/ 320 ) belonged to the Guild of the Stonecutters and there used to be a statue of a stonecutter above the door . |
| 41 | There used to be a fine Marian statue of 1649 by Bendl to the s of the square . |
| 42 | It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster — and there used to be a large car park there . |
| 43 | The moorlands also used to be a larder for great raptors : hen harrier and short-eared owl , quartering the heather in endless search of prey . |
| 44 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 45 | ‘ There used to be a diseased apple tree and a moribund honeysuckle just there ’ , says Sally , gesturing towards a miniature pagoda peeping over a wall of bamboo . |
| 46 | The Icelanders called one of their finest gushers of boiling water and steam Geysir , and this name was applied subsequently to all those depressing pieces of gas-fired plumbing which used to be a familiar part of the British bathroom scene . |
| 47 | And just to cap all this mythological irrelevance , the island of Vulcano is now linked by a small spit of land to another small volcano , Vulcanello , which used to be a separate island , and it has been suggested that this pair comprised the ‘ Scylla and Charybdis ’ , beloved of Homer and modern politicians , but then so have several other island pairs in the Mediterranean . |
| 48 | England used to be a country with red pillar boxes and policemen with red noses and decent law-abiding citizens you could eat your dinner off . |
| 49 | He used to be a surfer and dreamed of being one again . |
| 50 | At Harle Syke , just outside the town to the north-east , Queen Street Mill , which used to be a cotton mill , has been preserved by the local council in association with Pennine Heritage , and the building 's steam engine , which powered the looms , remains in situ and in working order . |
| 51 | As Gloucester used to be a major droving centre , there was inevitably much crossing with various Welsh types and the Gloucester 's slender , white , dark-tipped horns , spreading quite wide and tilting upwards at the tip , are often similar in style to those of the Welsh , though more refined and a little shorter . |
| 52 | One theory is that there used to be a group of cattle to the west of the Pennines and in the south west known loosely as the Red Wessex . |
| 53 | There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll . |
| 54 | There used to be a polled Irish Dun dairy breed not unlike the old Suffolk Dun of eastern England . |
| 55 | There used to be a Circuit bicycle , kept in Thomas Street , for the use of visiting Edgehill students down to preach in the country churches . |
| 56 | The classic work on plotting and graphs used to be a textbook by Carl Schmid ( 1954 ) , which is still worth consulting . |
| 57 | J. V. There used to be a Greek Church in Trinity Road and the bucks used to specialize in knocking the knobs off the railing . |
| 58 | A feller Thom — at Langham Street Gate , there used to be a tremendous number of Ellerman boats coming in — oranges and so on — tremendous amount thrown away because they were bad . |
| 59 | All the young men were bucks — a young buck in the old days used to be a gentleman . |
| 60 | S. S. The only bit of crowd trouble we had was the Catholics on the north side of the division and the Orangemen on the south side ; when the 12th of July was approaching there used to be a bit of trouble . |