Example sentences of "[pron] used to be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 2 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 3 | They used to be for a while . |
| 4 | Of course that is just what it used to be for before the invasion of the television and the mobile office . |
| 5 | It used to be for really petty things like not standing up , or shouting out the window , running up the dinner queue and pushing it . |