Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 2 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
| 3 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 4 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 5 | You see , I 'd been accustomed to the guided progression of the last comfortable years at school . |
| 6 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 7 | I 'd been lucky to book one of the two wheelchair spaces with adjacent seats for my family for last Saturday 's final night of the spectacular Robin of Sherwood musical . |
| 8 | Earlier in the day , I had been close to despair . |
| 9 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 10 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 11 | If ever I felt I had been rude to her or disobedient , I always felt ashamed . |
| 12 | But I did n't want anyone thinking I had been unfaithful to Alan . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been good to you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been used to playing dolls all these years . |
| 15 | The Merseysider told me : ‘ I 've been used to fighting away from home all my life — it does n't bother me . ’ |
| 16 | And another thing — your sailors all seem very small to me , because I 've been used to looking up at people twenty metres tall . ’ |
| 17 | For years I 've been used to addressing the parson as ‘ vicar ’ . |
| 18 | Because I felt vaguely grateful , I 've been nice to him . |
| 19 | I 've been nice to him . |
| 20 | I like to think I 've been helpful to somebody else , so that they do n't make the same mistake as I made , or so that they know the responsibilities they 're taking on if they do have the baby . |
| 21 | I did n't I mean I know I 've been married to him for thir twenty five year but did n't know her all that . |
| 22 | United 's Darren Ferguson is likely to give way for Robson 's return , but manager Alex Ferguson softened the blow for his son when he said : ‘ The players know I 've been loyal to them because they have fought hard with little reward . |
| 23 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 24 | God almighty … all these years , and I 've been blind to what 's been going on right under my nose . ’ |
| 25 | People I have worked with I 've identified as having problems that I can see some sort solution to in terms , for instance , of hospital treatment erm at times I 've been unable to erm to do that because the Act is very difficult to work round erm and in retrospect I 'm very |
| 26 | He 's given them something else back for their money , and I 've been glad to be part of it . |
| 27 | I 've been worried to death over you ’ , I says , ‘ wondering where you was ’ . |
| 28 | I 've been worried to death . |
| 29 | I 've been worried to death ! |
| 30 | It 's all water under the bridge ; you do n't want to hear it — I 'm sorry if you feel I 've been unfair to you . |