101.   It turns out one of the contestants, Tracy Harris of Long Beach, used to be in the Navy.

102.   It used to be that presidents shunted their vice presidents aside, giving them assignments designed to keep them out of power.

103.   It used to be war, Zimmer said, mentioning how Carlton Fisk hated Thurman Munson, the Yankees detested Bill Lee.

104.   It used to be, whatever hell a firefighter found himself in, that John Greene was pretty sure he could do something about it.

105.   It was the flood that Xavier Welch was contemplating in his blue terry cloth bathrobe as he watched Las Flores Creek carry away what used to be his backyard.

106.   It used to be a mantra of New Yorkers transplanted to the wilds of, well, anywhere else.

107.   It used to be easy to blame US military involvement on Presidents Reagan and Bush.

108.   It used to be only television, movie and music stars were tabloid fodder, with Nostradamus and space aliens thrown in.

109.   It used to be only women who walked in the door with something requiring pot holders, the guy carried the wine.

110.   It used to be silver that brought gamblers and prospectors to this former mining town nestled in the mountains of Utah.

v. + be >>共 1325
say 9.58%
figure 6.26%
be 3.78%
use 3.36%
remain 2.65%
present 2.56%
think 1.76%
estimate 1.43%
allege 1.39%
do 1.19%
use + v. >>共 1194
make 6.49%
treat 2.74%
help 2.61%
pay 1.94%
buy 1.44%
be 1.40%
produce 1.34%
build 1.26%
finance 1.25%
create 1.11%
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