Example sentences of "used to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to be brilliant . |
| 2 | Ho Choi 's use used to be brilliant ! |
| 3 | I mean , Angela , one of the twins , we used to be close . |
| 4 | I used to be close mates with The head chef of the goal-line restaurant . |
| 5 | If there is one unchallenged law of personal computing it is that , given half a chance , they will make something that used to be simple into a completely bewildering nightmare ! |
| 6 | Well what used to be simple and straightforward now leaves you with th wondering whether you got the right card in your pocket |
| 7 | They used to be sharp if you was n't careful . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes — I never used to be tidy , you know , but since the children grew up I 'm less able to tolerate mess — and Christmas is so messy ! ’ |
| 9 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 10 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 11 | ‘ I used to be good at running , trained three times a week and I was always competing . |
| 12 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 13 | ‘ Sally used to be good mates with Zaria , did n't she ? ’ |
| 14 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 15 | We used to be good enemies , that great prince and I , but somehow the enmity 's grown cool of late . |
| 16 | I work in a newspaper that used to be male dominated and now I would say three quarters of the wo , three quarters of the people on the news desk are now women . |
| 17 | Their influence used to be great . |
| 18 | Used to be great . |
| 19 | And er oh it used to be great fun |
| 20 | The industry in this town used to be great but everything 's shutting . |
| 21 | Used to be great friends , before Charles walked out . |
| 22 | maybe a bit younger the fashion used to be winkle-picker shoes . |
| 23 | It used to be possible to complete three circuits of the Barkhor before being detained . |
| 24 | It used to be possible to skate over the frozen water from Ulvik right out to the Hardanger Fjord , but now the hydro-electric station discharges gallons of hot water into the fjord , and it no longer freezes in winter . |
| 25 | It used to be possible to obtain second-hand telescopes at low cost , but by now a really good , cheap second-hand telescope is about as common as a great auk . |
| 26 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
| 28 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 29 | In the past , when we knew less than we do now , our advice used to be extra cautious . |
| 30 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |