Example sentences of "[noun] it used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 2 | Thus , for centuries it used to be thought that even if a woman expressed her lack of consent in every way within her power , if she conceived as a result of the intercourse , she must in fact have consented . |
| 3 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 4 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 5 | This quantity 6.022 x 1023 is known as Avogadro 's constant , L. It used to be known ( and still is in some quarters ) as Avogadro 's number . |
| 6 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 7 | Beafra it used to be in n it ? |
| 8 | Her face was thinner , not altogether a good thing , and she 'd had her hair coloured too , a sort of pale version of the colour it used to be . |
| 9 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 10 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
| 11 | Hendon 's not the area it used to be . |
| 12 | All over the ground floor it used to be beautiful red tiles , spotless . |
| 13 | Windsfield and along that way to get to Bloxwich is n't it , and of course it used to , as I say it was an event , and the kids used to , we used to and then the lamplighter used to come round , pushing his pole , no electric lamps then , he used to come round . |
| 14 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 15 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 16 | His suggestion that United Motors should progressively wind up its European , South American and Asian regional headquarters and plan , direct and control world operations from its home base in Detroit , had been well-received by most of the top brass who liked the big bold approach of running the world the way it used to be … from Detroit . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
| 18 | The North Shore was n't the way it used to be . |
| 19 | For her , Christmas is a time when the children are at the sparkling forefront of it all — the way it used to be in her own childhood , as Diana Spencer , at Althorp House in Northamptonshire . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's the way it used to be ’ , Murphy says , ‘ and we ought to start from that premise ’ . |
| 21 | I want to hope that I 'm being melodramatic and everything will settle back to the way it used to be , before all this ghastliness , but I doubt it . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 23 | the way it used to be ? |
| 24 | ‘ That is the way it used to be . ’ |
| 25 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 26 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 27 | With the advent of softer leathers and fabric boots breaking in your boots is not the problem it used to be . |
| 28 | Although Good Friday is not the general holiday it used to be , it remains the most emotive day of the Christian calendar , and is celebrated by walks of witness and solemn services . |
| 29 | Just up there on your left it used to be when I was a young lad , with their little forecourt with a little office in the middle two petrol pumps , I always remember that |
| 30 | But it was still a proper fog , a city fog , with a whiff of brimstone in it , a hint of the old sinner it used to be . |