Example sentences of "he used [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to be dark haired and worked in the toy shop in Sandhurst . |
| 2 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 3 | is it , ah , they used to be su , according to everyone he was such a so and so , he er , he 's , he used to be barmy , he was like the clo , close barmy man and he used to like chase people around with bricks and stuff and everyone used to hate him and like Julian and Andy used to beat him up all the time |
| 4 | He used to be chief education officer in Oxfordshire … he could n't run a press conference . |
| 5 | well he used to be right out here Frank did n't he ? |
| 6 | He used to be right out here Frank , he used to be a right paunch |
| 7 | He used to be involved in local community affairs ( as a local authority councillor and later as a JP ) , but has now largely withdrawn from these activities . |
| 8 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 9 | You part of the horn , you dredged them up , cos you used t the only thing we saw taken out , then this old fella used to come down from the Museum or whatever he was and he used to be pleased he 'd stay there all day and pick up them all . |
| 10 | He used to be fond of quoting this rhyme : There is so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us , That it ill becomes the rest of us , To think evil of any one of us . |
| 11 | He used to be chauffeur-driven to market and one evening , when returning via Lower Road , Bemerton , on the way back to his home at Donhead , saw a small child in the water , being swept downstream by the fast-flowing River Nadder . |
| 12 | ‘ He used to be bitter because his father never visited him either but he never let his feelings out . ’ |
| 13 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 14 | He used to be able to do it did n't he , old tap tap ? |
| 15 | He used to be able do all those , you know , er Stanley Holloway ? |
| 16 | Did he , did he used to be naughty and I was like , I do n't Ryan , and you got , I bet he did . |