Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it used to be a pond last century or |
| 2 | We start our school at eight o'clock , at nine o'clock it used to be prayers in the hall . |
| 3 | I know there 's an awful lot you can get on the road , but not not like it used to be . |
| 4 | Not like it used to be . |
| 5 | Not like it used to be . |
| 6 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 7 | Well it ought to be said that the world today , in this year nineteen ninety two , is a different place from what it was a hundred years ago . |
| 8 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 9 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 10 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 11 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 12 | Right up to the , right over , well it used to be er start two fields off . |
| 13 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 14 | Well it used to be , that 's where the , that 's where the used to be . |
| 15 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 16 | Well it used to be a coaching inn did n't it ? |
| 17 | Well it used to be slang . |
| 18 | And I said , well it used to be |
| 19 | did n't it used to be really popular , I mean everything you bought was |
| 20 | ‘ If you 've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence . |
| 21 | If any of the Lords or great ‘ Herren ’ in England wished to lay out an new garden or remake an old one , Mr. Miller would always show them how it ought to be done . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |
| 23 | Yet we do have rough-and-ready scales of value ; certain impulses regularly win out over others and , if the toss is there to be argued over , we will claim that this is how it ought to be . |
| 24 | But the right letters are there , even if they 're in the wrong order , so he knows how it ought to be spelled , up to a point . |
| 25 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 26 | And erm that 's how it used to be so o obviously you had to pay like that but er I can remember the the Coop coming to . |
| 27 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 29 | I do n't remember how it used to be between us , Julius . ’ |
| 30 | That 's how it used to be years ago . |