Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 4 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 5 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 6 | Her only way of coping with her over-identification with my situation was to try to reassert control over the child I used to be and prevent the cycle repeating itself . |
| 7 | It is n't really you who 's feeling this way , it 's the girl you used to be who 's been somehow resurrected — brought back to life by all the memories that surround you . |
| 8 | that group she used to be in |
| 9 | Beafra it used to be in n it ? |
| 10 | Although it is traumatic , having one 's life turned upside-down like this , discovering I 'm not the person I used to be . |
| 11 | The insider said : ‘ She is frighteningly different from the self-effacing person she used to be . |
| 12 | It may be necessary to create a new identity or to rediscover the person we used to be . |
| 13 | And er just pulling the chain in the thing what er like a big white globe they used to be . |
| 14 | Most portable types are around £20 — that 's half the price they used to be 10 years ago . |
| 15 | Her face was thinner , not altogether a good thing , and she 'd had her hair coloured too , a sort of pale version of the colour it used to be . |
| 16 | Their lives are rarely laid side by side for comparison with those of working women — women like Shahida or Prabhaben ( Chapter 7 ) who work all day in laundries , component factories and sweat-shops ‘ till my feet are like bricks and my arms aching … at night it used to be agony till I fell asleep . ’ |
| 17 | During the Labour landslide they used to be love letters . |
| 18 | Dose assessment : The account of dose calculation contained in Urquhart 's article does not allow the method he used to be completely understood , and it has proved to be impossible to obtain the ‘ fuller version ’ of the article , either from the Journal of Nuclear Information . |
| 19 | The General , half the beast it used to be and back in the red at the mid-point of 1992 , will be lucky to break even this year , despite vast attempts over the last three years to clear the decks and keep a tight ship . |
| 20 | She saw the spell-binder he used to be and the strength of personality that bound people to him . |
| 21 | Hendon 's not the area it used to be . |
| 22 | Like if he was hitting something and he accidentally hit his ha his thumb or his finger he used to be in agony for I mean it used to hurt him for the rest of the day . |
| 23 | And they were like that and then of course they used to be er no washing machines you used to be at these here tubs . |
| 24 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 25 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 26 | But no doubt just sheer distaste of the actual typefaces used , which were the winkle-bag was the description they used to be given . |
| 27 | IN my previous life I used to be an Eldorado script . |
| 28 | He would give me a hearty slap on the back , comment on my expanding girth — ’ Twice the man you used to be , Andreas , eh ? ’ — say that we must meet again ’ for a jar , old man , but just this moment I have to rush , ’ look at his watch , sigh apologetically and shoot off to his next meeting or liquid lunch or whatever . |
| 29 | All over the ground floor it used to be beautiful red tiles , spotless . |
| 30 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |