Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 2 | Richard , on the odd occasion you something for me Richard I ought to be a lot for you ! |
| 3 | I used to be a professional cleaner — I do n't want to get her into any trouble , I … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I used to be a psychiatrist , ’ Doctor said . |
| 5 | I used to be a partner in a wine merchants , and when we sold up I took all the best stuff . |
| 6 | I 've given it up because I used to be a cheesaholic . |
| 7 | And way back , you know I used to be a hair stylist myself . |
| 8 | I USED TO BE A FLOWER SAYS BECKENBAUER |
| 9 | I used to be a hairdresser . |
| 10 | I used to be a punk . |
| 11 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 12 | I remember I used to be a horror . ’ |
| 13 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 14 | Before I used to be a real reader ; but here there was not one book in the house . |
| 15 | I used to be a typist in Lord Silcaster 's estate office . |
| 16 | I used to be a member of the Society 's Race Relations Committee . |
| 17 | ‘ I used to be a teacher . |
| 18 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 19 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 20 | Drama begins : " I used to be a wizard with great powers ; but my magic jewels have been stolen . |
| 21 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 22 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 23 | I 'm keen to see a real dialogue with our members , er , how we achieve that I do n't know , we 've got the most enormous diversity of membership as I mentioned in my speech , but the more that we can get a a good dialogue going , and certainly I used to be a member of Health and erm , Disability Group , and remember that it was a very useful meeting point , er , as well as a good arena for developing policy initiatives . |
| 24 | I I was er I used to be a kitchen maid . |
| 25 | and he 's saying he 'll marry her and then of course Acky he and he says you know , er A Acky you know , and I used to be a male nurse you know , and John says aye , John |
| 26 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 27 | Well publicans actually , because I used to be a publican , and I thought it would be a good idea if I , it 's a good idea to ring people you 've got empathy with . |
| 28 | I used to be a carpenter you know . |
| 29 | I used to be an art historian . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I used to be an art historian , ’ I said . |