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Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ There used to be plenty — small perch , and pike , and eel — but they never seemed to grow to any size . ’
2	Crane Holdings are what is left of Crane-Freuhauf , the well-known trailer manufacturers that used to be around .
3	Because your bonus is really a , used to be around about five percent but if you look at them now , they 've restructured them , which means they 've reduced them .
4	One which used to be around was alright uncle how you doing .
5	‘ And I think that Archie told you that your cottage used to be where his family lived .
6	Round here used to be where working men lived .
7	‘ You mean the old fortune-teller who used to be here ?
8	‘ This never used to be here , ’ said Bellamy .
9	Are we slap a tax on , tariff on there that reduces consumption right , what with world prices , world prices they used to be here they 're now down here alright .
10	Used to be here .
11	That used to be here , you know , when that was on .
12	Used to be here though did n't it ?
13	Erm that later on , the signal box that used to be here was moved over to the other side , that 's all that 's there for .
14	And er the level crossing of the old A one used to be here .
15	I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on .
16	Is n't that funny that reminds me of an old girl I had at Dennis House the one I used to be on i I used to have to get her in bed get her all propped up and then
17	We used to watch it on Saturday afternoons , that always used to be on , wrestling .
18	Oh it was lovely that was and remember that programme that used to be on , erm Within These Walls about the prison , the women in prison ?
19	I tell you a good programme which used to be on was erm oh fucking Auf Wiedersehn Pet .
20	Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy .
21	Each of these three events involved the legal process or changes in the law , and as such inevitably make the censorship issue in libraries less localized than it used to be even after the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 .
22	His father did n't like talking about it much either and used to be slightly dismissive and jokey about it all .
23	At one time the Pinot Blanc and the Chardonnay , which used to be erroneously called the Pinot Chardonnay , were considered to be one and the same , which is why there is usually evidence of its existence wherever the Chardonnay is traditionally cultivated .
24	He used to be pretty good , as I remember . ’
25	Bad news that one , but you used to be pretty friendly , did n't you ? ’
26	I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do .
27	Plumber — more women are taking on what used to be traditionally male jobs , mainly because they are better paid .
28	I 've always thought of class in the following way — I think that , that class is broadly , or used to be broadly , ways in which people live .
29	A village which started looking into its own history has discovered that it used to be somewhere else .
30	Ah erm tt Vicki what 's that casino called that used to be somewhere near the erm Boys Brigade place ?