Example sentences of "and used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present drawing-room , which runs the length of the three central ground floor windows and used to be the entrance hall ( until the 1840 addition on the west side was made ) , must have stunned the neighbours with its sumptuousness . |
| 2 | Most bogs are full of tree stumps and used to be oak forests , like the Scottish moors . |
| 3 | The authority of the verderers , like that of the coroners , had ended with the previous reign , so the king sent out orders to the sheriffs to make arrangements for the election of ‘ as many verderers as there ought to be and used to be ’ in nineteen forests south of Trent , and in Sherwood Forest north of it , ‘ as no verderer is as yet elected therein by command of the King , |
| 4 | This disease occurs in tropical climes and used to be endemic in parts of Africa , South America , the Indian sub-continent , Indonesia , Australia , and the West Indies . |
| 5 | Snip , the mare , was n't as friendly or cooperative as Dick , and used to be very awkward when I was I sweeping the hay with her . |
| 6 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 7 | Deserta Grande is 10km long and 1,500m wide , has only one practical landing place and used to be inhabited . |
| 8 | His father did n't like talking about it much either and used to be slightly dismissive and jokey about it all . |
| 9 | It is seven mile from Yarmouth and used to be a kind of pub or lodging-house for wherry-men when the wherry traffic was the only kind on the river . |
| 10 | Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect . |
| 11 | He spoke to a cook and used to be given second helpings . |
| 12 | Grangetown and South Bank are in Langbaurgh and used to be in Eston Urban District . |
| 13 | He explains : ‘ I 'm a really big Liverpool fan and used to be a Kopite until a few years ago . |
| 14 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |