Example sentences of "you used to [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well you used to be able to book up a over a year in advance . |
| 7 | Then you used to be able to buy clay pipes , I do n't think you could today . |
| 8 | You used to be able to get odd knick nacks in there now it is just like any other store and we have enough up market stores in Thame . |
| 9 | I mean you used to be able to go ah ! |
| 10 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 11 | Erm you used to be able , this tea point in the office right , you saw it the fucking on |
| 12 | used , ya , you used to be able to get it and it would crumble it was rea , you know real |
| 13 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |