Example sentences of "be used [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The layout of the Alpha 2.0 is n't the simplest to get to grips with without some help — especially if you 're used to such simple machines as the Alesis Quadraverb — and the fact that the manual seems to require a PhD in logistics to understand just makes it all the more frustrating . |
| 2 | I shall be the director but you will work in the way you 're used to and as you think fit . |
| 3 | We 're used to that , though . |
| 4 | We 're used to the sharp cracks of lightning and the belch of thunder issuing from the belly of the sky . |
| 5 | WE 'RE used to Tania Bryer facing the camera , so here 's a rear view of the TV-am weathergirl . |
| 6 | Secondhand , of course , but we 're used to that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It may not be what you 're used to but it 's better to get things straight from the start , is n't it ? |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think they 're used to people calling in the middle of the night , ’ said Lydia , beginning to laugh again . |
| 9 | There 's also more humour in the titles , lyrics and samples than we 're used to from the techno end of the market . |
| 10 | Well , it 's not what we 're used to at Hoggatt 's , senior staff knocking each other about . |
| 11 | The other thing that tends to throw people the first time they every do ad advocacy is that you 're going to talk to somebody who will not talk to you , who will not s possibly even smile at you , who wo n't give you the usual feedback that we 're u that we 're used to when we 're talking to someone . |
| 12 | There 's also more humour in the titles , lyrics and samples than we 're used to from the techno end of the market . |
| 13 | You know I said to her I said it 's not what you 're used to is it ? |
| 14 | You 're used to the little ones over this area though are n't you ? |
| 15 | A er , whereas we 're used to er |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |
| 20 | Yeah as long as you know what they 're used for |
| 21 | It does n't help when , as a child , your brother leads you to believe that they 're used as rubber pants for hamsters . |
| 22 | Paving slabs may have shaped edges and a textured face , both of which will be visible if they 're used as treads . |
| 23 | Um y'know all these things were not very pleasant and yet you 're used as a child , you 're used as a child to have grown-ups um be able to inflict things on you . |
| 24 | Um y'know all these things were not very pleasant and yet you 're used as a child , you 're used as a child to have grown-ups um be able to inflict things on you . |
| 25 | they do n't , it does n't bother them at all right , they 're used under |
| 26 | You qualify out of that as an acting corporal , then you 're used by other classes ; for example , as a helper or decoy in staged attacks . |
| 27 | They 're used by the South , Tyneside Local Authority Branch to help buy a camcorder for the Sullivan member who 's recently undergone surgery to remove a tumour from his brain . |
| 28 | Far above on the moor we could see some new machinery which meant that someone was working out the tailings for spar and barytes for the North Sea oil industry where they 're used in the drilling Processes . |
| 29 | to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used . |
| 30 | Back on dry land , the rushes are dried out before they 're used in the workshop near Wantage . |