Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm an actress , or I used to be . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a model , or I used to be until I married . |
| 3 | You see you can , you get a lot , you can get tax relief off that or you used to be able to get tax relief . |
| 4 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 5 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 6 | Odette and the bairn still across the street just where they used to be . " |
| 7 | Where they used to be frozen and then you started another one wherever you went next time . |
| 8 | And there was a placement first floor , second floor , and where they used to be starting to live beautiful house ! |
| 9 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 10 | Or it used to be so . |
| 11 | Or it used to be the George . |
| 12 | Or it used to be until I got that letter . |
| 13 | Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none . |
| 14 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 15 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 16 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 17 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 18 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do . |
| 20 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 21 | Does n't she know , I go on , that she used to be a role model ? |
| 22 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 23 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 24 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 25 | 49% of you are more afraid of driving alone in the dark than you used to be . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't think Gemma eats as well as these two do , she 's ever so finicky worse than you used to be . |
| 28 | It 's not long ago , Aunt Tossie thought ( or said to Gigi — who was still eking out her parrot 's longevity ) that we used to be rich , dear bird . |
| 29 | We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be . |
| 30 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |