Example sentences of "as we used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 2 | ‘ He has gone from being totally subdued and unsure of everyone to playing games , just as we used to . |
| 3 | We do n't inhabit our homes as we used to . |
| 4 | " If you provide the boar — your sacrificial gift to the funeral — then we will match the gift by burning the death-house anyway , as we used to . " |
| 5 | The dining room in our town house is smaller than the one we had in our big , Victorian family house , so we do n't hold as many large dinner parties as we used to . |
| 6 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 7 | Modern relevant and as successful in recruitment of the workforce of the nineties as we used to be in recruiting the workforce of the sixties and seventies . |
| 8 | Do we defend by attacking as we used to , or do we keep numbers back like last year ? |
| 9 | Apparently we 're not killing as many cows as we used to . |
| 10 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 11 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |