Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb mod] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it used to be dark brown . |
| 2 | There are good nuts here and it used to be traditional to belay at this point . |
| 3 | He says Fridays are unbeleivable through here and it used to be such a nice quiet town . |
| 4 | it 's forehead cos that 's what people say and it used to be fore head and they change all the time that 's why need to record the words and see how they 're being pronounced . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Sports Council will await Universiade GB 's concurrence with the deal before nominating their man , but it ought to be one of their members with business acumen — which means either David Simon of BP , who is most unlikely to have the time , Raymond Michel , formerly with a distillery , or Norman Jacobs , a partner in one of Britain 's largest firms of solicitors . |
| 7 | Probably having keys would bee greeted with horror by some , but it ought to be possible to rationalise the finger holes . |
| 8 | But it ought to be easier . |
| 9 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 10 | But it used to be different then … there was n't no atmosphere like there is now and there were n't no fence around the London Road like now … |