Example sentences of "they used [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to be bloody thirty odd quid , forty odd quid . |
| 2 | They used to be nice little lads and all going round and quiet and the they used to then the tram cars used to lo run along Road . |
| 3 | They used to be sharp if you was n't careful . |
| 4 | They used to be brilliant . |
| 5 | Better , yes , better than erm , some , in the old days when you used to take those photo 's they used to be awful did n't they , erm , everybody sort of look 's as if they were staring and sort of all |
| 6 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 7 | And yet , years ago they used to be long , long trains . |
| 8 | they used to be cheap , there was a lot of one pound seventy , they 're only a little slab , drive me boring doing the little ones , so you might as well get two of the big ones once you 've done |
| 9 | they used to be alright did n't they ? |
| 10 | The neat , sturdy water-buses pass by , on their way to the railway station or over the Basin to the Lido ; they used to be steam-powered , which is why they are called vaporetti . |
| 11 | They used to be common in the Aberdeen Angus too . |
| 12 | And they used to er have er a film Of course they used to be silent films and then er er had er and there used to be what they call interval . |
| 13 | Where has those tomatoes gone , if you remember them , they used to be big ones an'all they were |
| 14 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 15 | They used to be alone among the plastic bags , sorting and grading whatever had been donated . |
| 16 | There used to be some nice serials for They used to be thrilling you know , er I can remember I wish they 'd show them now They used to be what we used to call , The voice on the wire and then there was another serial called , Peggo the Ring . |
| 17 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |