Example sentences of "she used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She used to be a check-out girl in [ name of supermarket ] . |
| 2 | It 's so sad because she used to be such a lively and outgoing person . |
| 3 | ‘ She used to be a bit of a lost soul , ’ says Jakki , ‘ but she 's changed a lot recently and I think that 's all down to Michael Hutchence . |
| 4 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 5 | Yet she used to be so organized . |
| 6 | She used to be a good cunt , now she was a dressful of dead fishmeat . |
| 7 | ‘ She used to be a mechanic before coming here . |
| 8 | ‘ She used to be passionate , you know . |
| 9 | She used to be an old singer , I do n't know any of her songs , but I just know she was an old singer . |
| 10 | Since she 's gone there 's been a gap … it made my life better , because — she had a garden I could use … and it was like a job — I felt I was led to do that job … and she used to be so pleased to see me , she used to almost embrace me with tears in her eyes . |
| 11 | She was not quite as neat as she used to be . |
| 12 | It was n't really her , just a wax effigy , a place where she used to be . |
| 13 | She used to be one of that Rajneesh lot , she always lives in communes , and Linda told me she was looking for somewhere . |
| 14 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 15 | She used to be in the front line at the Windmill . ’ |
| 16 | She used to be a typist and is married to a car patrolman on shift work . |
| 17 | ‘ It was her life , you see , parties and pretty clothes , and putting them on makes her remember how happy she used to be . |
| 18 | She used to be drawn towards political life , she dreamt of the English statesman , yet when Simon went for office she was against it . |
| 19 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 20 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 21 | ‘ She used to be Susan Hart : that help at all ? ’ |
| 22 | She used to be so lovely ’ |
| 23 | She used to be pretty . ’ |
| 24 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 25 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 26 | She used to be quite a truthful girl . |
| 27 | And she used to be so pretty … ’ |
| 28 | She used to be — well — blatant is the only word for it . |
| 29 | The insider said : ‘ She is frighteningly different from the self-effacing person she used to be . |
| 30 | She used to be Crilly 's stealing partner . |