Example sentences of "[Wh det] they used to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | FINGS ai n't wot they used to be department : The recent ministerial reshuffle has stripped the rather snobby Home Office of three Old Etonians — Hurd , Renton and Hogg . |
2 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
3 | Powders are not what they used to be and today 's formulations wo n't clog , streak or look heavy , provided you apply them properly . |
4 | Hollywood Indians are n't what they used to be . |
5 | HARD men ai n't what they used to be ! |
6 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
7 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dracula , ‘ fangs ai n't what they used to be ! ’ |
8 | Still , things are not what they used to be . |
9 | But he gave up on that to tell us this — things ai n't a patch on what they used to be . |
10 | It is one thing to assert that things are ‘ not what they used to be ’ and that this is part of the more ‘ general malaise ’ in society . |
11 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
12 | ‘ A lot of black people , they make it and they forget about the street talk , they forget what they used to be , and I think , regardless of whether you 're black or white , you should always keep in touch with your culture . |
13 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
14 | THINGS : WHAT they used to be |
15 | Things were not what they used to be , he lamented . |
16 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
17 | ‘ Fings ai n't what they used to be , ’ sang Max Bygraves . |
18 | THINGS : WHAT they used to be |
19 | Spies ai n't what they used to be |
20 | What I do n't understand if all they need to do is revert back to what they used to be and come straight through on the on the ordinary route . |