Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can . |
| 2 | So it used to be a pond last century or |
| 3 | We start our school at eight o'clock , at nine o'clock it used to be prayers in the hall . |
| 4 | I know there 's an awful lot you can get on the road , but not not like it used to be . |
| 5 | Not like it used to be . |
| 6 | Not like it used to be . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 9 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 10 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 11 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 12 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 13 | Right up to the , right over , well it used to be er start two fields off . |
| 14 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 15 | Well it used to be , that 's where the , that 's where the used to be . |
| 16 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 17 | Well it used to , it used to be midnight . |
| 18 | Well it used to be a coaching inn did n't it ? |
| 19 | Well it used to be slang . |
| 20 | And I said , well it used to be |
| 21 | Yeah , did n't it used to called twistwood Stefan or something ? |
| 22 | did n't it used to be really popular , I mean everything you bought was |
| 23 | ‘ If you 've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence . |
| 24 | If any of the Lords or great ‘ Herren ’ in England wished to lay out an new garden or remake an old one , Mr. Miller would always show them how it ought to be done . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 26 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 27 | But the right letters are there , even if they 're in the wrong order , so he knows how it ought to be spelled , up to a point . |
| 28 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 29 | And erm that 's how it used to be so o obviously you had to pay like that but er I can remember the the Coop coming to . |
| 30 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |