Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 2 | ‘ Kids do n't seem to mind the modern shirts but of course older people remember how they used to be . |
| 3 | If , if one turned up with a dirty one they have to buy the beer that 's how they used to be . |
| 4 | And maybe that 's how it used to be — but the person you are today is far removed and different from the individual you were a year or so ago . |
| 5 | And erm that 's how it used to be so o obviously you had to pay like that but er I can remember the the Coop coming to . |
| 6 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 8 | I do n't remember how it used to be between us , Julius . ’ |
| 9 | That 's how it used to be years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ It is sad to see all this emptiness , and remember how it used to be . ’ |
| 11 | That 's how it used to be though |
| 12 | you know there was something wrong I was sitting listening I mean I 'm not been involved when you were talking about the stock take somewhere along the line a few things have slipped because when you go back , in the days when I used to be morning stock takes , we used to before the event , you would nearly always have the counts done . |
| 13 | Ah , ah , ah but , ah but you ca n't let me see , you do n't , you do n't remember the war years when I used to be in town while she was out . |
| 14 | And erm some houses used to some houses used to go up some steps and two steps and The one where I used to be and you went you used to go up two steps . |
| 15 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 16 | It was n't really her , just a wax effigy , a place where she used to be . |
| 17 | Er they put the pieces back to where they used to be . |
| 18 | And there used to be a a little croft croft there of long ago , and it 's er it 's all planted now with trees all round about it but I suppose they could still see where they used to be A black smith had stayed there . |
| 19 | From the , from the pool , see there used to be a , there used to be a pool , near lock gates , that 's where they used to be . |
| 20 | in the place where they used to be . |
| 21 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 22 | So that is a Jacquard , and that 's an electronic Jacquard , means you can do all sorts of different patterns now , where it used to be limited it 's unlimited now . |
| 23 | Oh yes , oh yes each side and er there , some , a few came round erm where it used to be the old picture house , a few came around up as far as Rushbrooks and erm further up towards erm now then The Central , there 's a school that they used to call it The Central but erm |
| 24 | The air fares have gone up , , cos she 's got relatives there and she said where it used to be about . |
| 25 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 26 | And I 've seen Harry Lloyd and er Houdini what they call him you know , where he used to be all strapped in chains and get out of tanks and that . |
| 27 | He used t he used t he used to take about half a dozen bottles of beer on the Saturday morning with him and that 's where he used to be in his , in his galley and he would n't move out that galley all the time . |
| 28 | Yeah , well they 'd be in and out the yard and everywhere I 'd , wherever they used to be I do n't know . |