Example sentences of "people used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in fact , the once-trendy Manhattan disco Studio 54 , where people used to be turned away for not being Beautiful . |
| 2 | For example , mildly depressed and tired old people used to be given amphetamines . |
| 3 | First , he said , the administration was more actively engaged in trade policy than the Bush people used to be . |
| 4 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 5 | Somebody 's car alarm 's gone off no , right , now this where lots and lots of people used to really moan , the , the person that was having a fit would absolutely go through hell because somebody at some stage had said oh you must put something in a person 's mouth that has epilepsy . |
| 6 | In the early days of er navigation within the Mediterranean people used to actually have to navigate by going all the way round the coast . |
| 7 | People used to consistently park because they had n't got garages . |
| 8 | Er so I said , Alright I 'll stop taking them which I did n't anyway , but a lot of people used to took them but some used to take er when it when the periods were due they 'd take about half a box , I mean instead of taking two , er two one day and two the next they 'd take about half a box . |
| 9 | There used to have people used to all go and get some hot peas and the fish and chips and eat them you know , as they was going home and and all like that . |
| 10 | Maybe we just are n't as clever as people used to be ; maybe the Nintendo Gameboy and daytime television ( both , significantly , introduced in the past six or seven years ) have ruined thousands of careers , not just my own . ’ |
| 11 | And then people used to er maybe wedding rings or sovereign used to pawn that and then they used to either they could n't afford to get it out , to , to redeem it so er the pawnbroker would sell it then , after a time . |
| 12 | but anyway , erm people used to be very helpful and erm |
| 13 | but erm they erm , they had their meals in the canteen which was one of the committee rooms adapted for that purpose and erm , I think erm , the youngs younger people used to quite enjoy it really I mean they used t ha |
| 14 | Of course I must add a , a word of warning here , because whereas once upon a time many people used to be able to ring the Weather Centres or a Met Office to get their own personal forecast , which was very nice , we enjoyed doing this , it has now got to the stage where so many people are trying to ring us that we just can not deal with all the enquiries personally , and we 're looking into ways and means of erm providing forecasts of this sort of nature , they 're general sort of nature , by other means , such as radio and television . |
| 15 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |