Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] to [being] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can legitimately say , ‘ I know ’ , and add in the same breath , ‘ but I am open to being shown I am wrong ’ . |
| 2 | I 'm used to being treated like dirt I 'm not proud . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh — I 'm used to that , I 'm used to being criticized , despised . |
| 4 | ‘ Since Natasha was born six months ago , I 'm used to being disturbed in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 5 | Of course , with a name like mine I 'm used to being called all sorts of things . |
| 6 | I 'm used to sa , I 'm used to being told that at school . |
| 7 | Notice that while doing this you are vulnerable to being pulled over , so your body position should be lower than ever . |
| 8 | She is accustomed to being despised . |
| 9 | Still , she was used to being ignored . |
| 10 | But , having been blessed with long , slender legs and what Paul described as a model-girl 's figure , she was used to being stared at , so she walked past them with her normal slightly coltish grace , her composure intact . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was because she was unaccustomed to being kissed with such ardour . |
| 12 | We 're used to being told dark secrets about dead artists , but suddenly it 's open season on twentieth century public figures . |
| 13 | Instead of mounting sheet and halyard tail bags on he upstands of the cockpit el , where they are vulnerable to being torn off , they are recessed beneath the cockpit seats . |
| 14 | Children , if they are used to being treated with respect , will behave accordingly . |
| 15 | Widows will talk of being acutely aware of the gap by their side when they are used to being viewed as one of a couple ( obviously couples who divorce or separate feel the same ) . |
| 16 | Whether they will look after our type of clients in the way they are used to being looked after is of course a different question . |
| 17 | ‘ They 're cunning animals but they 're used to being hunted by leopards , not by men with guns . |
| 18 | They 're used to being married to somebody else , and Jim Ledingham is used to being married to Shirley . |
| 19 | The report said army intelligence officers started spying on black Americans out of fears they were susceptible to being influenced by German agents in the First World War , then by Communist and Japanese agents and opponents of the Vietnam War . |
| 20 | And they had declared them because they were accustomed to being allowed to use the drugs when they travelled in Europe . |
| 21 | And they had declared them because they were accustomed to being allowed to use the drugs when they travelled in Europe . |
| 22 | French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group . |
| 23 | He 's used to being groomed and eating , Now , this is a grooming session : where 's the food ? |
| 24 | He was used to being ridden do the same stretch of road several times a week , and he had seen it all before . |
| 25 | Oh , well — she shrugged her shoulders — it would be as well to remember the sort of girls he was used to being seen around with . |
| 26 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
| 27 | He was used to being obeyed without demur . |
| 28 | Few of us were used to being jerked from slumber at 6 a.m. every morning and spending the day in continual physical activity . |