Example sentences of "it used to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the junior school would sit on the floor in the front and that 's how it used to be arranged . |
| 2 | For a really weird effect , it could be combined with an actual camera movement in the opposite direction ( tracking in and tracking out , so called because it used to be done on tracks like tramlines rather than free wheels ) . |
| 3 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 4 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 5 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 6 | So that is a Jacquard , and that 's an electronic Jacquard , means you can do all sorts of different patterns now , where it used to be limited it 's unlimited now . |
| 7 | The ridge is formed by the algal genus , Porolithon , not by Lithothamnion after which it used to be named . |
| 8 | By my bed there 's a wall and it used to be covered in orange- flowered wallpaper . |
| 9 | It used to be called Am Graben which is German for ‘ the moat ’ because that was where the medieval city walls ran . |
| 10 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 11 | It used to be called the ‘ self-build movement ’ , and the wearing of beards and open-toed sandals was close to compulsory . |
| 12 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 13 | It used to be called ‘ the Corner of the World ’ as it was said that , seated at one of the tables on the pavement , a Madeiran would eventually see all the people he knew and meet people from all over the globe . |
| 14 | It used to be called Austin-Morris but changed its name to British Leyland and then Rover . |
| 15 | The bush — or , as it used to be called , dwarf ( misleading these days in view of the growing popularity of the miniature and patio types ) — is the form that is most popular and commonly planted in gardens everywhere . |
| 16 | The basic species type , Rosa pimpinellifolia ( or , as it used to be called , R. spinosissima ) grows very well in most soils , but flourishes particularly in light sandy soils in which it can indulge its natural habit of spreading to form large prickly thickets by means of underground runners and suckers . |
| 17 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 18 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 19 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 20 | They used call the it used to be called the attic you see in them days . |
| 21 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 22 | But it used to be called a ragged school . |
| 23 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 24 | But it used to be called Broadmarsh . |
| 25 | And it used to be called 's N's lodging house . |
| 26 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 27 | Even those who seek to be integrated into the new culture ( or ‘ go native ’ as it used to be called ) will remain strangers in the new culture . |
| 28 | Er , it used to be called Joe , but he 's died and Woods have got it now . |
| 29 | This has been in use in the works office for some time , it was , it used to be called an aide-memoire . |
| 30 | It used to be called the Great Western railway , which was built in the 1830s under the guidance of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |