Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be [adv] " in BNC.
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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 ? |