Example sentences of "used to [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The areas involved are small , but there used to be many unsightly corners in the mining villages near St Austell and , by making improvements here and there , English China Clays has done much to make life more pleasant for local residents . |
| 2 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 3 | The assumption of this explanation is , of course , that there used to be many couples who wanted a divorce but could not have one because their case was not covered by any legislation . |
| 4 | But there are other situations ( and there used to be many more ) in which the social status of the household is measured by the give/take transactions of the wife rather than of the husband . |
| 5 | Well there used to be that 's right , with you John , talking about college group just about that time . |
| 6 | Cos I know the principle used to be that is er , it was in the first aid room cos that 's where all the first aid treatments |
| 7 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 8 | It used to be that Opposition spokesmen quoted figures that were four years out of date , but the hon. Gentleman depends on statistics that go back 10 years . |
| 9 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 10 | If the manner of victory was nothing new , ushered by irresistible fast bowling from Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh on a degenerating strip , much of the preamble was a welcome refresher course in what cricket , and its intrinsic art , used to be all about in these parts . |
| 11 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 12 | With a horse , I had a horse then , and er there u there used to be er there used to be three or four of us there with horses and we we used to The the the From the coal face there used to be all individual horses bringing odd tubs into a turnout What we called a turner which was a collection of different tubs you see ? |
| 13 | And there used to be all them sort of things . |
| 14 | Well when they 've got this here lace , there used to be all pins at the side of this er of these er frames . |
| 15 | When there used to be all houses round there , there used to be a fish shop there as well . |
| 16 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 17 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 18 | And I 've seen Harry Lloyd and er Houdini what they call him you know , where he used to be all strapped in chains and get out of tanks and that . |
| 19 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 20 | They , " she waved her hand towards the door , " They will pull her away from her , take bits of her that used to be all ours , and she 'll be like a visitor here . " |
| 21 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 22 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 23 | and that , well th well that was cos there used to be all hot cinders you know like coke , red hot coke and they always had clogs then with leather tops . |
| 24 | I think that 's where they got the idea and they used to be all leather , thigh boots . |
| 25 | and when we and when we were dredging that up , that used to be all like er er trunks of trees and you could , I mean you could see it when they come up it was very light . |
| 26 | I used to be All the lads the same age as me there . |
| 27 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 28 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 29 | It used to be all green that 's better |
| 30 | It 's different , it used to be all green ice cream , but it 's now got all white layers , got a white , white |