Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a recent election broadcast he featured as Sir Denis ‘ Foreman ’ — as in the foreman of a building site , rather than of Granada of which he used to be deputy chairman . |
| 2 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 3 | The ridge is formed by the algal genus , Porolithon , not by Lithothamnion after which it used to be named . |
| 4 | Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces . |
| 5 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE is who he says he is , because he is who he used to be , because Dudley Moore is to all intents and purposes Dudley Moore , actor , musician , mascot , clown , then there are a few details and descriptions and facts and figures that have to be mentioned . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 8 | FINGS ai n't wot they used to be department : The recent ministerial reshuffle has stripped the rather snobby Home Office of three Old Etonians — Hurd , Renton and Hogg . |
| 9 | Course , it it used to be the old rough gravel road . |
| 10 | I mean he runs up and down , he it used to be lovely , all the grass . |
| 11 | But , praise God , I am not what I used to be , |
| 12 | I had a conversation the other day with Con that reminded me of what I used to be , before I got corrupted by this place . |
| 13 | certainly ca n't manage what I used to be able |
| 14 | What I used to be like not , not as young as her like |
| 15 | You have changed so much , you are a different person from what you used to be . ’ |
| 16 | You want you say your mid- thirties erm er to sort of campaign with but I think we really , this is what we used to be , a campaigning movement and this is what we are no longer . |
| 17 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Powders are not what they used to be and today 's formulations wo n't clog , streak or look heavy , provided you apply them properly . |
| 19 | Hollywood Indians are n't what they used to be . |
| 20 | HARD men ai n't what they used to be ! |
| 21 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 22 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dracula , ‘ fangs ai n't what they used to be ! ’ |
| 23 | Still , things are not what they used to be . |
| 24 | But he gave up on that to tell us this — things ai n't a patch on what they used to be . |
| 25 | It is one thing to assert that things are ‘ not what they used to be ’ and that this is part of the more ‘ general malaise ’ in society . |
| 26 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of black people , they make it and they forget about the street talk , they forget what they used to be , and I think , regardless of whether you 're black or white , you should always keep in touch with your culture . |
| 28 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 29 | THINGS : WHAT they used to be |
| 30 | Things were not what they used to be , he lamented . |