Example sentences of "what [pers pn] used to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , praise God , I am not what I used to be , |
| 2 | I had a conversation the other day with Con that reminded me of what I used to be , before I got corrupted by this place . |
| 3 | certainly ca n't manage what I used to be able |
| 4 | What I used to be like not , not as young as her like |
| 5 | You have changed so much , you are a different person from what you used to be . ’ |
| 6 | You want you say your mid- thirties erm er to sort of campaign with but I think we really , this is what we used to be , a campaigning movement and this is what we are no longer . |
| 7 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Powders are not what they used to be and today 's formulations wo n't clog , streak or look heavy , provided you apply them properly . |
| 9 | Hollywood Indians are n't what they used to be . |
| 10 | HARD men ai n't what they used to be ! |
| 11 | FINS ai n't what they used to be for Doug Laughton and Graeme Souness |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ said Dracula , ‘ fangs ai n't what they used to be ! ’ |
| 13 | Still , things are not what they used to be . |
| 14 | But he gave up on that to tell us this — things ai n't a patch on what they used to be . |
| 15 | It is one thing to assert that things are ‘ not what they used to be ’ and that this is part of the more ‘ general malaise ’ in society . |
| 16 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ A lot of black people , they make it and they forget about the street talk , they forget what they used to be , and I think , regardless of whether you 're black or white , you should always keep in touch with your culture . |
| 18 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 19 | THINGS : WHAT they used to be |
| 20 | Things were not what they used to be , he lamented . |
| 21 | All these actions led to the reduction of oil prices until they dropped to half of what they used to be … |
| 22 | ‘ Fings ai n't what they used to be , ’ sang Max Bygraves . |
| 23 | THINGS : WHAT they used to be |
| 24 | Spies ai n't what they used to be |
| 25 | What I do n't understand if all they need to do is revert back to what they used to be and come straight through on the on the ordinary route . |
| 26 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 27 | He 's very uncooperative and aggressive , not at all like what he used to be … oh yes , it is a strain . ’ |
| 28 | WHERE was the judgment in paying Derby a record £5.1 million for Dean Saunders and Mark Wright only to discover that Saunders does n't fit with Ian Rush and Wright is n't quite what he used to be ? |
| 29 | ON FARM after farm around us the potato harvest is coming in — but the lifting of spuds is not what it used to be . |
| 30 | ‘ Nostalgia ai n't what it used to be , ’ interjected Andrew , quoting the latest college graffiti . |