Example sentences of "[conj] she used [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Does n't she know , I go on , that she used to be a role model ? |
| 3 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 4 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 5 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 6 | Since she 's gone there 's been a gap … it made my life better , because — she had a garden I could use … and it was like a job — I felt I was led to do that job … and she used to be so pleased to see me , she used to almost embrace me with tears in her eyes . |
| 7 | And she used to be so pretty … ’ |
| 8 | Yeah and she used to be hammering on the door , twenty past five you know yeah |
| 9 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 10 | It 's so sad because she used to be such a lively and outgoing person . |
| 11 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 12 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 13 | She 's over there because she used to be on the erm |
| 14 | She was not quite as neat as she used to be . |
| 15 | She 's not as cool as she used to be , you know . |