Example sentences of "used to be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , th that used to be through the main entrance , is n't it , the booking office . |
| 2 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 3 | It used to be about the best bowling green in the in this part of the country . |
| 4 | They used to be for a while . |
| 5 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 6 | Other claims used to be to a maximum of £5000 . |
| 7 | The Grand Tour of Italy was like what National Service used to be to the young men of our country . |
| 8 | No I did n't cos I was on , I used to be on a oil card delivering paraffin oil round the countryside and then cos I used to stink apparently and then I got this job at er on a pushbike |
| 9 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 10 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |
| 11 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 12 | Built in 1903 it has bronze and marble panels in an Art Nouveau style depicting the friars from the monastery that used to be on the site . |
| 13 | ‘ I used to be on the school lunch programme , you used to have free lunch in the schools , you know , then they wiped that out . |
| 14 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 15 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 16 | " I used to be on the stage myself , " said Grace , " a long time ago . |
| 17 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 18 | HE 'S mean , he 's moody , he used to be on The Tube and he can play the piano . |
| 19 | She 's over there because she used to be on the erm |
| 20 | That 's the the four colours , used to be on the |
| 21 | but this one seems to of gone haywire , oh does he go , but as I say she 's changed the bedrooms you see , he used to be on the far end |
| 22 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 23 | What 's the national flower of England , the , the , the one that used to be on the thruppenny bit ? |
| 24 | it used to be at a different time of the year , though , did n't it ? |
| 25 | On a Saturday night , there used to be at the bottom of Scotland Road — Byrom Street — all the Irishmen . |
| 26 | To begin with there must be detailed analyses of small and intermediate-size LOCA 's as well as the large double ended breaks that used to be at the centre of safety analyses and formed the so-called ‘ design basis ’ accident . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | And er get and then strip this er at the side , cos a girl used to be at the front to strip all this here lace of these here pins . |
| 29 | Oh no they were based in the town , at buildings , used to be at the buildings . |
| 30 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |