Example sentences of "that [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none . |
| 2 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 3 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 4 | ‘ And another thing that 's changed is that I used to be wary of getting into certain types of music , for fear they would show up in my playing ; these days , though , I figure that listening to just about anything is cool . |
| 5 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 6 | For instance , I do n't want people to know that I used to be a drummer . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm old , I know I 'm old and I ca n't do all the things that I used to be able to do . |
| 8 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 9 | Does n't she know , I go on , that she used to be a role model ? |
| 10 | It 's not long ago , Aunt Tossie thought ( or said to Gigi — who was still eking out her parrot 's longevity ) that we used to be rich , dear bird . |
| 11 | We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be . |
| 12 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 13 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 14 | ‘ The great thing about pop music in the past is that it used to be about pushing everything . |
| 15 | THE name of the current month shows in its Latin origins that it used to be the 10th month of the year , not the 12th . |
| 16 | But er it 's not the road that that that it used to be . |
| 17 | So I just , it used to be , you see that it used to be W G and Sons . |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't the stigma that it used to be and — ’ |
| 19 | A village which started looking into its own history has discovered that it used to be somewhere else . |
| 20 | THOUGH much smaller in numbers that it used to be , Courtaulds Italia has managed to weld together a team which blends experience with freshness . |
| 21 | He does n't believe his wife 's 92-year-old grandmother , Wendy ( Maggie Smith ) , when she assures him that he used to be Peter Pan . |
| 22 | Another thing we had a barney with Peter about at one point , was the fact that he used to be too drunk on stage , ’ says Charman . |
| 23 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |