Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [adj] to [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm well accustomed to being called sir . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't suppose so , I am feeling a little self-conscious , I 'm not used to being on display in this sort of way . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not used to being so quickly dismissed , Doctor . |
| 4 | I 'm not used to being in a church . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not used to being abducted , ’ she said , tight-lipped . |
| 6 | It wo n't do the public any harm to think we care about them , but I 'm not used to being watched . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm not used to being so mistrusted . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not accustomed to being treated that way — and I 'm not crazy about it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Not when I 'm so close to being happy — ’ |
| 10 | This is because you are not used to being shackled to the author 's words . |
| 11 | I expect Alice Fell — the real one — thought him a pompous busybody , but she was probably used to being ordered about by ‘ men of ardent humanity ’ . ) |
| 12 | " I sensed that she was n't used to being contradicted . " |
| 13 | But she was n't used to being treated as though she did n't exist , and nor , despite her quip on deck , did she intend being a slave . |
| 14 | She was n't used to being without a pillow . |
| 15 | Part of our difficulty with concepts like this is that we are quite used to being told we are servants of Christ . |
| 16 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 17 | You see , we were so used to being out , both the wife and I. We 'd go all over London travelling and to the theatre ; and of course our holidays abroad , we miss , weekends at the coast we miss . |
| 18 | I have never been phoned by a Prime Minister before , but I imagine they are not used to being kept waiting . |
| 19 | He was absolutely right in that respect and I remember him delivering this homily at The Three Tuns and the people receiving it in a rather stony silence because they were not used to being lectured . |
| 20 | The version of Presentations we 've been looking at is a Beta 2 release , which means that it is very close to being the final code , and it 's expected that only bug-fixes and minor cosmetic changes will take place from this point forward . |
| 21 | There is an enormous body of data in support of the theory and it is as close to being a factual representation of the nature of evolutionary change as any theory can be . |
| 22 | Erm one of the things that I like to emphasize er at this stage is that although it 's self employed it is as close to being employed as you can possibly be with a company but then but still destined by your own efforts to earn earn the money . |
| 23 | He 's not used to being with women who have pre-menstrual tension or post-natal depression . |
| 24 | he 's worked he 's way up through various branches of the law , he he 's practically certain to being a Q C and then a recorder , you know |
| 25 | But he 's so used to being . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's quite used to being bossed ! ’ she laughed . |
| 27 | He was probably used to being spoken to by pompous individuals . |
| 28 | He was already used to being called out by the Sheikhs for the slightest problem . |
| 29 | He was not used to being spoken to in this way . |
| 30 | Detective Inspector Mike Bennett said : ‘ He was as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get . |