Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] to [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to be one of the allocators over there as well |
| 2 | I used to be eleven stone . |
| 3 | I used to be eleven stone , when I was eighteen , nineteen I was eleven stone Hayle . |
| 4 | I used to be 20 stone and now I 'm 15 stone , which is n't bad . |
| 5 | I used to be ten stone , er all my life I was ten stone seven , eleven stone |
| 6 | She used to be one of that Rajneesh lot , she always lives in communes , and Linda told me she was looking for somewhere . |
| 7 | She used to be one of my best friends . |
| 8 | I used to try and not say er , you know , to make her feel uncomfortable and that sort of thing , but I did use to draw the line when they used to be eleven and half past eleven saying goodnight and I had to get up at half past , six o'clock , seven o'clock |
| 9 | Most portable types are around £20 — that 's half the price they used to be 10 years ago . |
| 10 | they 've erm , erm fifty-eight 's up at Black Bridge , they used to be three of them there and , one of them was used in the |
| 11 | Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) . |
| 12 | ‘ If you 've done it right it ought to be four thousand three hundred and three pounds and fifty pence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is a standard lie for each club , but for a short person it ought to be one or two degrees flatter . |
| 15 | You were the one who said it ought to be eight o'clock . |
| 16 | Did in fact with the Greater York districts initially take a view that it ought to be eight miles . |
| 17 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 18 | The law is very unclear on what this time limit is — it used to be six years , but some would hold that there is now no limit to the liability . |
| 19 | It used to be six months did n't it , and now it 's gone up |
| 20 | It used to be fifty thousand in n it , the prize ? |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Yes , it used to be two and a half times the wage and in the long run rather than mess about taking the house off them |
| 23 | Well he 's , he 's no , he ge that 's not a full time job like , but I mean , it used to be one , but |
| 24 | It used to be seventy something . |
| 25 | Oh oh yes yes the union did erm get that er sorted out you know , and er and then when the buses began to run it made it easier for those worked in Willenhall and er and it just be about threepence of fourpence in our money go there then , but erm and then the hours were altered you see , eight o'clock and finish at six o'clock and er and then it used to be seven to seven you see . |
| 26 | It used to be 9 p.m. in summer and 8 p.m. in winter . |
| 27 | Or it may be the elementary idea of putting the same number of matches into a matchbox ( it used to be 50 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It used to be three , now it 's two . |
| 29 | It used to be three and sixpence I think , it is about five pounds now . |
| 30 | Remember it used to be three inches long and now a foot long , with a flapper |