Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] be used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 2 | Could your system cope with warm food after what you 've been used to ? |
| 3 | Others which are perhaps a little bit of er a change from what we 've been used to doing , |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps he is n't quite what we 've been used to , but I thought we might give him a trial . |
| 5 | Only these foreigners are a bit different from what we 've been used to . |
| 6 | ‘ It is not what we have been used to , ’ said Floy . |
| 7 | People live in tents , and customs are so different from what they have been used to , that I really wonder how they reconcile themselves to their new mode of life . |
| 8 | A few smashed windows , drink , a fight or two , umpteen girls almost ‘ conquered ’ , long tall stories almost believed — but compared with what he had been used to it was the lure of the Orient , freedom , the cry of the Sirens . |
| 9 | It was only that none of this was quite what he had been used to . |