Example sentences of "the [noun pl] used to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time the line of the defences used to be regarded as a significant rural-urban divide , but the repeated recognition of extensive extra-mural suburbs has necessarily shifted the emphasis of enquiry . |
| 2 | The offices used to be in West Byfleet in Surrey . |
| 3 | What did the shops used to be like cos you used to have to go to the Old Town did n't you ? |
| 4 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 5 | Some of the preachers used to be very enthusiastic , not to say a trifle over-active , when delivering their message . |
| 6 | The offences used to be ‘ knowingly selling intoxicating liquor ’ and ‘ selling tobacco to a person apparently under the age of sixteen years ’ . |
| 7 | The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full . |
| 8 | The chapels used to be full , the chapels used to be full . |
| 9 | And somewhere through the hotel muzak lurks the sensation that things used to be different , that we ( my brother and I ) had n't always been wrapped in jumpers , silent , staring at the screen , that the days used to be hot and long . |
| 10 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 11 | Part of the buildings used to be an old cobbler 's shop , hence the ‘ Cobblers ’ wine bar and restaurant . |
| 12 | The monks used to be responsible for the education of the boys , teaching them the three Rs and the elements of Buddhism , the learning being almost entirely by rote , so that approaching a village one could often hear from a distance the shrill boyish voices as they repeated the lesson after their teacher . |
| 13 | I remember the Carpenters used to be on here you know . |
| 14 | Buckets , well every night time , when we finished dredging , you had to wash down , wash the decks down cos I mean that the decks used to be covered in mud and slush , so all we had then was an old draw bucket on a bit of rope , over the side , there were n't no hoses then , we used to the bucket and then we used to swing all the mud back in there , in the river . |
| 15 | But with the sheep used to hang them whole in the shop like , like these are now , yeah and the pigs used to be chopped down . |
| 16 | The Americans used to be so arrogant that they refused even to allow the Panamanian flag to fly . |
| 17 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll meet you where the gates used to be if that 's all right with you . ’ |
| 19 | And the cellars were there , where the men used to be , but they 're all down now , y so you ca n't say anything about all that lot now . |
| 20 | Just because you have a damp wall , do n't assume the problem has to be directly above it — in other words , where the eaves used to be . |
| 21 | All the parishes used to be different and it used to be possible at one time to know approximately where in Orkney somebody came from . |
| 22 | where the docks used to be … now couples raced |
| 23 | Now a man as I used to visit , older than me now , er the blacklegs used to be escorted with police to their homes like from this factory . |
| 24 | And the first three rows used to be a ha'penny and the the others used to be a penny . |
| 25 | Where the shows used to be ? |
| 26 | She says that the canons used to be filled with nails , nuts and bolts etc and they could cut a man in half . |