Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 For myself , I 've grown very used to having it around , and miss it when I use anyone else 's machine — it certainly speeds things up .
2 " Well , " said Grace , " we 've grown very attached to you , Miranda and I. " She turned his hands over , still holding them in her own .
3 Asa , you 've got very close to saying something which I 've often pressed historians on , but they 've never got quite as close as you have , and that 's actually saying that history is useful insofar as it might tell us something about the future .
4 But basically , my thing has stayed the same because I 've got really used to it , although it 's not even all that efficient .
5 I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life !
6 I 've got quite used to Serafin , I realize .
7 As each slice of anti-trade union legislation has gone onto the statute book we 've become less able to effectively represent our membership .
8 ‘ I know that we 've become very attached to each other since I came to live with your family .
9 If they were all the same colour you 'd think But because you 've become so used to seeing the green and ambers and the reds
10 Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it .
11 I 've counted about seventeen to twenty caravans .
12 We 've managed about ten to fifteen miles at a pinch Which is not bad for a couple of old'uns is it ?
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