Example sentences of "[adv] it used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it used to be a pond last century or |
| 2 | We start our school at eight o'clock , at nine o'clock it used to be prayers in the hall . |
| 3 | I know there 's an awful lot you can get on the road , but not not like it used to be . |
| 4 | Not like it used to be . |
| 5 | Not like it used to be . |
| 6 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 7 | And then they used to well it used to be ever so long , yards and yards of it and then we used to what they call drawing . |
| 8 | Well it used to be a clothes shop but what you used to call a pawn shop in them days as well . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well it used to be the Victoria Station in them days then before it come Victoria Centre . |
| 11 | Right up to the , right over , well it used to be er start two fields off . |
| 12 | Well it used to be carried on the back and . |
| 13 | Well it used to be , that 's where the , that 's where the used to be . |
| 14 | Well it used to be the Stenness Loch was very good till they built the barriers . |
| 15 | Well it used to be a coaching inn did n't it ? |
| 16 | Well it used to be slang . |
| 17 | And I said , well it used to be |
| 18 | That used to be all stage you know not pictures then it used to be all stage . |
| 19 | Oh oh yes yes the union did erm get that er sorted out you know , and er and then when the buses began to run it made it easier for those worked in Willenhall and er and it just be about threepence of fourpence in our money go there then , but erm and then the hours were altered you see , eight o'clock and finish at six o'clock and er and then it used to be seven to seven you see . |
| 20 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 21 | You think that 's especially true and like say Aberdeen if you go in a shop there and and , at least it used to be the case , and asked for something you be thought you were speaking fine but they would just say , Oh my you down from Orkney for a holiday ? |