Example sentences of "[vb mod] to [be] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There used to be a good chippy down the back of Albert Street . |
| 2 | She used to be a good cunt , now she was a dressful of dead fishmeat . |
| 3 | ‘ He used to be a good cop . ’ |
| 4 | It used to be a good town for the hides trappers brought down out of the hills , but that trade is gone now , along with many another . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thursday used to be a good night in the paper for motors . |