Example sentences of "[ex0] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 2 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 3 | [ Name ] there used to be a architect and [ name ] has a degree in law . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There used to be plenty — small perch , and pike , and eel — but they never seemed to grow to any size . ’ |
| 5 | There used to be a lot of work . |
| 6 | In the old days , there used to be crazes , Adam and the Ants , Gary Numan , absurd figures who nonetheless possessed a certain mesmeric force , managed to induct us into ludicrousness , like the Pied Piper . |
| 7 | THERE USED to be elms along the lanes around Challow . |
| 8 | As she uncovered herself to him — ‘ for I love , and there is no loneliness , no misery , no doubt and ignorance , no hoping for that which seems vain as there used to be , but never will be again ’ — one glimpses the ideal that enabled her to accept without question the life that lay before them . |
| 9 | There used to be worse enemies : moss , for instance , and the emerald hell of clover . |
| 10 | Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark . |
| 11 | There used to be such wonderful blackberries ! |
| 12 | ‘ There used to be a good chippy down the back of Albert Street . |
| 13 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 14 | ‘ You see where there 's bog — there used to be water there , ’ he told me . |
| 15 | It is difficult to share David Jones ' enthusiasm for the humble titration when one remembers all the argument there used to be about standardisation . |
| 16 | We could hardly get inside for rubbish and could n't see the floor , it was all dirt , and there used to be two or three benches on which we had to sit down ; then old Morgan would read the Bible to us and pray , we had to kneel down — oh what a dry lesson . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There used to be a fine Marian statue of 1649 by Bendl to the s of the square . |
| 19 | It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster — and there used to be a large car park there . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | There used to be brindles , riggits ( linebacks ) and brocket-faces ( large white area down the front of the face but not around the eyes ) but these are no longer seen . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There used to be a polled breed in southern Devon known as the Devon Natts and also a Somerset Poll . |
| 24 | There used to be a polled Irish Dun dairy breed not unlike the old Suffolk Dun of eastern England . |
| 25 | There used to be two varieties known as the Maroilles and Picardy in France . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | T. B. I was at Lawrence Road , and on Saturday night , there used to be bedlam outside the Pavilion Theatre and there were fights between drunks . |