Example sentences of "we used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember those peppermint creams we used to be able to get ? |
| 2 | Jean Stubbs does the same for the 60s in Like We Used To Be ( Macmillan , £11.95 ) bringing to life the world of Flower Power and pot , contraception and the Beatles . |
| 3 | We used to be their pet band until we had a rather silly disagreement onstage . |
| 4 | The way we used to ! ’ |
| 5 | We used to be mortified to think that a recognisable vest or discarded pair of pants , now grey , torn and shapeless , should be thought by a neighbour to be worn by one of us . |
| 6 | It may be necessary to create a new identity or to rediscover the person we used to be . |
| 7 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 8 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 9 | We used to be in the same practice , Peter and I. Now he 's doing his stuff under the desert sun . |
| 10 | They do n't take so much notice of the things we used to , like fidelity and so on . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He has gone from being totally subdued and unsure of everyone to playing games , just as we used to . |
| 12 | We used to , watch them arrive , looking dazed and disappointed . |
| 13 | ‘ We met at a swimming gala 'cos we used to be competitive swimmers , ’ recalls Sam . |
| 14 | It 's also tied to the fact that were , we have less money than we used to because of the introduction of Poll Tax , it is tied to that cos we are constrained but , erm that 's the kind of thing that we get brought into to support , erm and then another area is progressing policy initiative 's in other Council departments . |
| 15 | We do n't inhabit our homes as we used to . |
| 16 | Yeah , I would like to do is just mention that it 's so surprising really that er the resources used are out of all proportion to what we used to er do on it , on the other central panel . |
| 17 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 18 | We used to be alone together in the midst of the world … ’ |
| 19 | Could n't we have the arguments that we used to ? |
| 20 | " If you provide the boar — your sacrificial gift to the funeral — then we will match the gift by burning the death-house anyway , as we used to . " |
| 21 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 22 | I mean , Angela , one of the twins , we used to be close . |
| 23 | Why do n't we go back to the way we used to be ? |
| 24 | We used to paly croquet on the lawn . |
| 25 | We used to paly badminton on the lawn . |
| 26 | And we used to do these er pictures that u used to be on er grey and blue paper and we used to , with white paint we used to make a sort of anything there and then with erm charcoal sticks we used to draw on it . |
| 27 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
| 28 | But he was tt er a twist hand in the hosiery trade , making socks , and he worked in the last mobile , not mobile , er mechanical stocking manufacturers , owned by my uncle , Mr Frank , in Street and th what we used to called Street . |
| 29 | And then we used to and they used to come along with the old cart and start leading . |
| 30 | But we used to Littlewoods used to give us an order , for one machine , or two machines , and you could keep your machine on this one particular set of curtains , without changing your jacks , without changing your beams , without changing your bodies , you could work straight on and on and on . |