Example sentences of "[vb mod] to be something " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , i it used to be something I put up with when I was younger , now , if my parents come to visit I ask them to smoke in the corridor , go out of the door , open a window , something , because I found it affects me so badly ! |
| 2 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 3 | Wonderful trees , there 's one that that used to be something called |
| 4 | Yeah , mine , mine used to be something like quarter to twelve , did n't it , quarter to twelve till three , and then they decided to change round , it used to be quarter to twelve to six , did n't it ? |
| 5 | There ought to be something very distinctive about the theory that describes the universe . |
| 6 | There ought to be something special and simple about the theory of everything . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose her autumn social life will be starting , ’ he said absently , ‘ and I suppose the note of my October magazine letter ought to be something about the autumn and winter social activities , ’ he went on , taking up his pen again . |