Example sentences of "often [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 2 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 3 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 4 | And buy a sheep and come home with it and that over the bridge with it , all along and along er that road there and th and when we used to come from that school in , he used to be coming with a sheep on the string like this and the poor thing , I used to look at the old sheep and he often used to be tired you see . |
| 5 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |