Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] used to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 2 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 3 | She was used to draughty spaces , soaring walls , a nightly ritual of wraps and hot bricks in winter . |
| 4 | She was used to insolent treatment from fellow servants — for she had long learned that a companion , be she never so genteel , was regarded as little more than that . |
| 5 | ‘ Being in the country we were used to good fresh stuff . |
| 6 | They were used to heavy work as they had to run the crofts & do all the work themselves when their husbands were away on the boats . |
| 7 | RD users include Chris Novoselic of Nirvana and the Mission 's Craig Adams , to whom this particular specimen belongs , and on whose early tours and recordings it was used to great effect , before it was trashed at a gig in 1987 . |
| 8 | Afterwards , Mr Major said he was used to political turbulence and the ‘ rough and tumble ’ . |
| 9 | He was used to white lines , asphalt , trees . |