Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] used to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not used to large houses … . |
| 2 | Local people were well used to high security when Campsfield was a young offenders institution . |
| 3 | They did n't er they they were n't used to industrial action I think it 's fair to say and er they did n't want they were n't quite sure whether you know they they might be taken over by cert well certain political f factions if you like . |
| 4 | Feeling some shyness — he was not used to social life , and this looked to be above his station — he used the brass knocker , polished as it was to show one 's face , distorted , as though in a mirror at a fair . |
| 5 | If Father Branche was surprised he did not show it , but no doubt he was well used to English women in Rome and the kind of things they were likely to do . |