Example sentences of "not used to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then on an embarrassed laugh , he added , ‘ I 'm not used to polite society . ’ |
| 2 | We are not used to long poems these days , and we no longer expect poetry to do the work of history , psychology and the novel , or to find ‘ the spirit of the age ’ expressed in poetic medium . |
| 3 | Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway . |
| 4 | But it is a lawyers ' word , and those not used to legal language might naturally think that it meant changing something or exchanging property for other property . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We were not used to large houses … . |
| 7 | I 'm just not used to lucky breaks . |
| 8 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 9 | 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 . |