Example sentences of "they [adv] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses . |
| 2 | They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles . |
| 3 | And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas . |
| 4 | now with them changing the the changeover cos they always used to be the letters followed by the numbers . |
| 5 | Children brought up on a diet of TV and video are no longer as tractable and easy to control , as they once used to be , even in the younger classes of the junior school . |
| 6 | There is a primitive look to them : they are small ( perhaps 100cm at the withers , and weighing 280–300kg , though they probably used to be larger ) and very narrow in the hindquarters . |