Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | oh yes , oh I know Dora she used to be in our dancing troop |
| 2 | In Pakistan they used to be my constant companions . |
| 3 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 4 | Thus , for centuries it used to be thought that even if a woman expressed her lack of consent in every way within her power , if she conceived as a result of the intercourse , she must in fact have consented . |
| 5 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 6 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 7 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 8 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 9 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 10 | It is n't really you who 's feeling this way , it 's the girl you used to be who 's been somehow resurrected — brought back to life by all the memories that surround you . |
| 11 | But the hoppers they used to be , er two hoppers we had two of them hoppers , we had the er one called the |
| 12 | This quantity 6.022 x 1023 is known as Avogadro 's constant , L. It used to be known ( and still is in some quarters ) as Avogadro 's number . |
| 13 | St Colum seems to have attracted legends around himself wherever he went , for as Columba he used to be well known to every Scottish schoolboy for converting the King of the Picts , banishing water horses and other praiseworthy acts . |
| 14 | that group she used to be in |
| 15 | lay on for them and erm also of course erm , I know , people like erm Mr and Mr they used to be picked up by er , by some chaps in a jeep or Army truck . |
| 16 | In his pre-sponsorship days he used to be known as ‘ the surfer who lived in a car ’ ; in France he had a tent on the beach . |
| 17 | Beafra it used to be in n it ? |
| 18 | Although it is traumatic , having one 's life turned upside-down like this , discovering I 'm not the person I used to be . |
| 19 | so on a Sunday I used to say right I 'm not gon na take my tablets today because it 's a waste of a tablet if you 're gon na eat like that , and on a Sunday I used to be absolutely exhausted because you take them all the time and they keep you going and then when you stop taking them they 've just , you wind down |
| 20 | The insider said : ‘ She is frighteningly different from the self-effacing person she used to be . |
| 21 | And they were like that and then of course they used to be er no washing machines you used to be at these here tubs . |
| 22 | It may be necessary to create a new identity or to rediscover the person we used to be . |
| 23 | And er just pulling the chain in the thing what er like a big white globe they used to be . |
| 24 | Most portable types are around £20 — that 's half the price they used to be 10 years ago . |
| 25 | Her face was thinner , not altogether a good thing , and she 'd had her hair coloured too , a sort of pale version of the colour it used to be . |
| 26 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 27 | During the Labour landslide they used to be love letters . |
| 28 | Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information . |
| 29 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
| 30 | She saw the spell-binder he used to be and the strength of personality that bound people to him . |