Example sentences of "[adv] used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve o'clock used to be a great well as far as I can remember . |
| 2 | I am so used to leaping from the sensation , the flat circle , to the judgement , a globe , and do it so quickly , that I do not notice I have done it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It only used to be a penny . |
| 5 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 6 | Course i e , it 's very expensive now but it it only used to be about one and six a pound right up to the end of the war and it 's now two pounds a pound and |
| 7 | I mean it only , it only used to be like the The Plough and and The Bath and er New Inn and |
| 8 | I only used to a little bit of |
| 9 | Well apparently used to be trained . |
| 10 | We all used to be at the desk — four of us , plus Roy Thomas-Baker and Mike Stone — all six of us with fingers on the faders and sometimes we 'd work thirty-hour mixes ! |
| 11 | You know , it all used to be so simple . |
| 12 | We all used to be together on New Year 's Eve , did n't we , Dad ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 15 | And we all used to we we both schools ended up , er used to use the same assembly hall . |
| 16 | And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas . |
| 17 | It all used to be quite lovely before we had |
| 18 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 19 | But when the Sixties arrived , even elderly men starting sporting pink shirts ( pink ! — that just used to be the colour of their gin ) and sideburns . |
| 20 | That just used to be a mud pile there . |
| 21 | I still had it in the wardrobe so I just used to . |
| 22 | Yeah , but Steve said it just used to . |
| 23 | but it was n't like a long thing but like I , the time that I spent with him was like quite a long time , like the evening , whatever , so he 'd get , and like it just used to be constant pauses , it used to be terrible and so we used to get off with each other like you pause for , for what |
| 24 | Not just sales , so it should n't just be the appointments in your diary , and a lot of you will not used to be keeping a diary as well . |
| 25 | But , while he is of Le Patron Mange Ici school ( which always used to be the sign of a good restaurant ) , I ca n't see that it would have been particularly good for business here . |
| 26 | The house that always used to be warm and welcoming when they got home is now dark and cold . |
| 27 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 28 | Money always used to be a problem in my own life . |
| 29 | IT ALWAYS used to be Chrismuzak — the sound of synthesised carols in stores and malls — that turned me into a Scrooge . |
| 30 | I always used to , there was a time when I would n't dream of painting indoors . |