Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 2 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 3 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 4 | This should be used to adjust the model in a manner similar to that which you have been used to so far . |
| 5 | It 's just what she 's been used to in n it ? |
| 6 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 8 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 9 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 10 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 11 | In some areas the new standard might differ markedly from that we have been used to in Britain . |
| 12 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 13 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 14 | Some refugee children underwent , for the second time , a fall in living standards from those they had been used to in Europe , which added to the depression they were already feeling as the threat of invasion increased . |
| 15 | They have been used to ‘ track ’ party policies over the postwar period and to see how far party 's electoral promises have been fulfilled in government . |
| 16 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |
| 17 | He 'd been used to having chars and minions running round him . |
| 18 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 19 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 20 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |