Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 2 | But it was still a proper fog , a city fog , with a whiff of brimstone in it , a hint of the old sinner it used to be . |
| 3 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 4 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 5 | Although Good Friday is not the general holiday it used to be , it remains the most emotive day of the Christian calendar , and is celebrated by walks of witness and solemn services . |