Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] used to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that the first time it happens , especially if you are used to the more genteel reduction in power and revs of a Lycoming or a Continental when you throttle back , it does n't half make the old adrenalin start flowing . |
| 2 | You 're used to the little ones over this area though are n't you ? |
| 3 | We are used to the traditional emphasis placed in Christian teaching on the transcendence of God , on His detachment from the world which He has created . |
| 4 | We are used to the Labour party believing that it can talk up its support by talking the country down . |
| 5 | We 're used to the sharp cracks of lightning and the belch of thunder issuing from the belly of the sky . |
| 6 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 7 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 8 | I see now that 's one that is n't may not be known to some of our listeners they 're used to the R S P C A and the P D S A but the National Canine Defence League what makes it different ? |
| 9 | Most of us are used to the familiar Baker Street landmark now , its squat green ( copper ) dome topped with a disconcertingly transparent Saturn in the place of a weather vane . |