Example sentences of "who used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 2 | Yes , he says , he does meet fellow Vietnamese workers who used to be in Germany but , no , they do not discuss politics . |
| 3 | Last year nearly seven million people watched the final , some way below the 12 and 13 million who used to be enthralled by snooker . |
| 4 | I amaze myself — I , who used to be terrified of the unlit hallway — ready to sit it out , unafraid ; friends with the living darkness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is the self-designation preferred by those who used to be known as queers , poofs , homos , by those who like to call a spade a bloody shovel . |
| 7 | Nowadays , nobility is on the side of those who used to be called Redmen , hardly surprising to anyone who has read any of the dreadful history of the spread of Europeans across the West . |
| 8 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean the old fortune-teller who used to be here ? |
| 10 | DE VALERA : A man who used to be President Of Ireland before he turned into Jimmy Stewart . |
| 11 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 12 | Mention ‘ Shaw ’ to a young person now , and they might just remember Martin , who used to be in The Professionals . |
| 13 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 14 | It is , of course , pathetic that a man who used to be a raging republican should turn into a slavering royal poodle , just as it is sad that his economic and political principles should have become as unrecognisable as the Welsh rugby team . |
| 15 | ‘ When I was manager , I previously told Chief Inspector Dick Hebberd , who used to be in charge of policing at Underhill , about them , but he has since been transferred . |
| 16 | ‘ We work in a very haphazard way , ’ muses Jim , the mixing desk whizz who used to be in , um , Altered Images . |
| 17 | ‘ Also , it seems , a qualified solicitor who used to be in partnership up North somewhere , but quit to make a fulltime career of saving wayward youngsters . |
| 18 | THAT BLOKE WHO USED TO BE IN THE SMITHS CAUSES A BIT OF A STIR AGAIN … |
| 19 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 20 | I was one of those people who used to be sort of potty about someone and then go off them within two weeks . |
| 21 | Alyce Faye , with whom he now lives , sunbathes in the garden and chats to a friend who used to be John 's accountant ( ‘ A Bennite , ’ says John , rather proudly . ) |
| 22 | The jurisdiction existed as an appellate jurisdiction if an uncalled member of an Inn , who used to be called an ‘ inner barrister ’ from the position he occupied on the forms or barrae in the halls of his Inn : see ‘ Two Problems in Legal History ’ by Bolland , 24 L.Q.R. 392 , 399 , was aggrieved when his Inn refused to permit him to be called to the ‘ utter bar : ’ Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 23 | Mercury account number , talk to Connie erm who used to be at Hull . |
| 24 | I 'd got a lot of autographs ; Kenny Lynch , Gareth Hunt , that bloke who used to be in The Sweeney , Tim Brooke-Taylor , Rachael Heyhoe-Flint . |
| 25 | There is Barnabas , who used to be a rich , landowning Cypriot Levite : Symeon , called ‘ Swarthy ’ , who seems to have been a Negro ; Lucius of Cyrene , no doubt a Jew from the dispersion in North Africa ; Manaen , who was educated in court circles alongside Herod the tetrarch ; and Saul of Tarsus , the Jew from the Levant who had studied under Gamaliel . |
| 26 | Can I say so from a similar point of view , I knew somebody who used to be a butcher . |
| 27 | The workers , who used to be employed by British Rail Maintenance , have also deposited redundancy payments , running into six figures , with the Royal Bank . |
| 28 | I may not be good at long-lasting relationships , but even I can see this is not the way to become those Folks on the Hill , Darby and Joan , who used to be Jack and Jill … |
| 29 | Des , who used to be a goalkeeper on Stoke City 's books , turned on the style with some continental soccer skills to entertain the crowds before netting from the spot . |
| 30 | ‘ You know there are young people , even more meshuggeh than you — who used to be involved with drugs and being hippies in India and God knows what crazy stuff-until they met the Maggid and Returned to the Faith . |