Example sentences of "[modal v] to be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 2 | Nowadays I mean I know there never used to be apprenticeships for women but |
| 3 | They used to be friends . ’ |
| 4 | We used to be friends . |
| 5 | There used to be loads down there ! |
| 6 | We start our school at eight o'clock , at nine o'clock it used to be prayers in the hall . |
| 7 | I ca n't remember whose daughter reminded me , market used to be fishmongers all over the place . |
| 8 | Oh aye , there used to be wakes at one time . |
| 9 | His grandparents used to be Gypsies and Jon realised from an early age that he would like to follow in their footsteps . |
| 10 | Did used to be Boys Brigade ? |
| 11 | When I was young , accountants used to be figures of fun . |
| 12 | On a , there used to be shelves in that cart then . |
| 13 | Many banks that used to be trusts or owned by the state have converted to joint-stock status in order to take advantage of tax breaks offered by the Italian treasury . |
| 14 | This city used to be villages ; now it 's castles under siege . |
| 15 | There used to be guns in the house , of course , but it never occurred to me to look if they were still there . |
| 16 | They 're like that , and then they 've got a shuttlecock the shuttlecock used to er have er like a a cork thing and then there used to be feathers round . |
| 17 | Well then there used to be frames Ooh er as long as a street the room used to be . |
| 18 | Used to be specials from the station . |
| 19 | They used to In the lace market there used to be factories what used to make lace er and er a lady used to er go and take fetch so much lace out and she used to give it out to people what wanted to do it . |
| 20 | That 's how it used to be years ago . |
| 21 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 22 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 23 | In the old days , there used to be crazes , Adam and the Ants , Gary Numan , absurd figures who nonetheless possessed a certain mesmeric force , managed to induct us into ludicrousness , like the Pied Piper . |
| 24 | At that time , I mean , I have known when my , when I was a dredger and they used t we used to clean the bottom , I have known er mussels on the bottom , used to feed on , be on the side of the ship , good mussels , but of course there used to be cockles , winkles . |
| 25 | British bikes used to be kings of the road . |
| 26 | You see , before that , that land behind us , before it was all built on , it used to be plots and you know the man coming up with the |
| 27 | And erm there used to be shops where they would , they 'd sort of say , we can give you pills to bring it on , but I , I do n't think they ever really did . |
| 28 | The centre is One , the outer fringe is Six ; zones where there used to be neighbourhoods . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , there used to be flowers in our own greenhouses . ’ |
| 30 | THERE USED to be elms along the lanes around Challow . |