Example sentences of "i used [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to be proud . |
| 2 | Like you , I used to be overcome with shyness and would hover outside a roomful of people rather than go in and meet them . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to be good at running , trained three times a week and I was always competing . |
| 4 | I said that I used to be partial to them when I smoked . |
| 5 | ‘ I used to be nervous before big games , but what has happened this year has given me increasing confidence , ’ said Beal . |
| 6 | I used to be aloof because I did n't want people becoming too familiar . |
| 7 | When I used to be involved in the old days , people used to say : ‘ I 'm from Coopers , I 'm from Peats , and this is the way we do it' ’ . |
| 8 | I used to be close mates with The head chef of the goal-line restaurant . |
| 9 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 10 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 11 | ‘ I used to be sad and pathetic , but I 'm not so miserable any more . |
| 12 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 13 | Suzanne , whose husband ca n't resist mail-ordering everything from wet-look bras to latex knickers , admitted , ‘ Frankly , I used to be horrified . |
| 14 | I used to be scared of the possibility that one day mum would n't be able to get me up . |
| 15 | I used to be amazed how calmly grown-up people accepted it all . |
| 16 | I used to be worried that I would die and Charmian would be brought up by another woman … |
| 17 | In fact , every race , I used to be sick . |
| 18 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to be angry about the hypocrisy and the cruelty of religion . |
| 20 | I used to be frightened to fall asleep at night sometimes , afraid I 'd stick my head out from under the clothes while I was asleep and wake up to find my head in a dragon 's mouth , before I died . ’ |
| 21 | " I used to be active in the church but not now , there used to be hell on if I did things in the church . |
| 22 | ‘ Yeah , I used to be able to play with the slide at the 12th fret and reach all the way back to hit the top string at the seventh fret with my first finger . |
| 23 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 24 | Before the clampdown , I used to be able to score round here , there was that many places that you can score really . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to be able to do everything my friends did , ’ she says . |
| 26 | ‘ I used to be able to walk thirteen paces every way on the raft ; and now it 's only twelve . ’ |
| 27 | I used to be able to do this and come out chuckling . ’ |
| 28 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 29 | I used to be able to , but just lately I 've found it 's impossible ; once I 'm awake I start worrying about the silliest things . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |