Example sentences of "[noun] and it used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 2 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 3 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 4 | By my bed there 's a wall and it used to be covered in orange- flowered wallpaper . |
| 5 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 6 | The gates are usually locked at night and it used to be fairly standard practice that people going in and out had to identify themselves . |
| 7 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yah , they 're taking it off the satellite and it used to be there was always the seven o'clock news , except in central side when it was always the six o'clock news , but now it 's on at like any old time , five thirty , six thirty , seven . |