Example sentences of "you used to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You used to be a teacher ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yeah , Steve said you used to be a university lecturer . ’ |
| 3 | You mean you used to be a museum curator or something ? ’ |
| 4 | But it seems a shame not to challenge yourself because other people say you 're not as good as you used to be . |
| 5 | You have changed so much , you are a different person from what you used to be . ’ |
| 6 | Bad news that one , but you used to be pretty friendly , did n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |
| 8 | 49% of you are more afraid of driving alone in the dark than you used to be . |
| 9 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 10 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 11 | You used to be right but after Alaska in the north-west and Hawaii in the Pacific became states of the union , the centre moved to a point west of Castle Rock , Butte County , South Dakota . |
| 12 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 13 | You used to be such an ass about her in the old days . |
| 14 | Well you used to be as cute as they were , you used to watch fingers , you did n't get them rattled . |
| 15 | And it was a little square thing , about two foot square , with a er and about eight inches deep , tt and you used to put the clothes in , with warm water and your your powder , close the top and you used to have a handle , and Like that there , and you used to be backwards and forwards , like that , , with this paddle going backwards and forwards inside it . |
| 16 | And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then . |
| 17 | And you used to be ab well you used to be able to over the flames of the fire on one side , and then er a saucepan on the other on the in one side with your vegetables in one side , with your potatoes in and then you used to have your oven with a for your meat . |
| 18 | And you used to be ab well you used to be able to over the flames of the fire on one side , and then er a saucepan on the other on the in one side with your vegetables in one side , with your potatoes in and then you used to have your oven with a for your meat . |
| 19 | And they were like that and then of course they used to be er no washing machines you used to be at these here tubs . |
| 20 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 21 | You used to be a welder in the yards did n't you , Sergeant ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 23 | Well you used to be able to book up a over a year in advance . |
| 24 | Then you used to be able to buy clay pipes , I do n't think you could today . |
| 25 | Besides , do n't you remember how lonely you used to be on your own ? ’ |
| 26 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 27 | CATHERINE Well , you used to be conceited enough without me having to add to it . |
| 28 | I I remember er that was the way my father used to get a a bit of pocket money to buy tobacco and things , a shilling a sack and the other farmers they used to find the the biggest sack they could find you know , and cram it with oats and then you used to be after supper . |
| 29 | You used to be more fastidious , used to be above servants — ‘ We must not exploit them , ’ you told Hector once — how we laughed over that ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 've changed so much and you used to be such a happy child . |