Example sentences of "we used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember those peppermint creams we used to be able to get ? |
| 2 | Jean Stubbs does the same for the 60s in Like We Used To Be ( Macmillan , £11.95 ) bringing to life the world of Flower Power and pot , contraception and the Beatles . |
| 3 | We used to be their pet band until we had a rather silly disagreement onstage . |
| 4 | We used to be mortified to think that a recognisable vest or discarded pair of pants , now grey , torn and shapeless , should be thought by a neighbour to be worn by one of us . |
| 5 | It may be necessary to create a new identity or to rediscover the person we used to be . |
| 6 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 7 | We used to be in the same practice , Peter and I. Now he 's doing his stuff under the desert sun . |
| 8 | ‘ We met at a swimming gala 'cos we used to be competitive swimmers , ’ recalls Sam . |
| 9 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 10 | We used to be alone together in the midst of the world … ’ |
| 11 | I mean , Angela , one of the twins , we used to be close . |
| 12 | Why do n't we go back to the way we used to be ? |
| 13 | We did n't stop for neighbourhood , we used to be , it was r everybody mixed up . |
| 14 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 15 | And er he was rubbing the coal off his back and was stripped there , we used to be stripped to the waist then . |
| 16 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 17 | And we used to be selling them at midnight . |
| 18 | You want you say your mid- thirties erm er to sort of campaign with but I think we really , this is what we used to be , a campaigning movement and this is what we are no longer . |
| 19 | You looked at the streets of your home province and you exclaimed , ‘ We used to be a spotless people , sweeping , polishing , tidying , setting things in order . |
| 20 | We used to be sort of er almost like a erm a clothes line . |
| 21 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |
| 22 | It 's not long ago , Aunt Tossie thought ( or said to Gigi — who was still eking out her parrot 's longevity ) that we used to be rich , dear bird . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And then we used to be playing top , we 'd a top right round the village , see how far we could go . |
| 25 | We never used to go Here we used to be and on the beach there . |
| 26 | ‘ We used to be harassed constantly by officials of the Municipal Corporation for running what they called an illegal business . |
| 27 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 28 | We used to be friends . |
| 29 | There was a lot of stress on resources , and by resources I do n't just mean books in libraries , I mean staffing resources primarily … and we used to be very fierce about the quality of course leadership , for example . |
| 30 | We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be . |