Example sentences of "she used to " in BNC.

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1 She used to be a check-out girl in [ name of supermarket ] .
2 It 's so sad because she used to be such a lively and outgoing person .
3 I wish she was here , sitting next to me on the bench , holding my hand like she used to .
4 She used to be a bit of a lost soul , ’ says Jakki , ‘ but she 's changed a lot recently and I think that 's all down to Michael Hutchence .
5 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 .
6 Yet she used to be so organized .
7 She used to be a good cunt , now she was a dressful of dead fishmeat .
8 She used to be a mechanic before coming here .
9 She used to be passionate , you know .
10 She used to be an old singer , I do n't know any of her songs , but I just know she was an old singer .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 She was not quite as neat as she used to be .
14 It was n't really her , just a wax effigy , a place where she used to be .
15 She used to be one of that Rajneesh lot , she always lives in communes , and Linda told me she was looking for somewhere .
16 FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man .
17 She used to be in the front line at the Windmill . ’
18 She used to be a typist and is married to a car patrolman on shift work .
19 ‘ It was her life , you see , parties and pretty clothes , and putting them on makes her remember how happy she used to be .
20 She used to be drawn towards political life , she dreamt of the English statesman , yet when Simon went for office she was against it .
21 I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’
22 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 .
23 Not so much now because of ill health but she used to .
24 She used to be Susan Hart : that help at all ? ’
25 She used to be so lovely ’
26 She used to be pretty . ’
27 She used to sometimes say , " You should n't do this , they 'll take him away . "
28 Now she used to used a crochet hook , yeah .
29 And she used to live er in , in the lace market .
30 She used to mind you in them days you there was no er fitted carpets on your floor .
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