Example sentences of "'ve been used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 2 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 3 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 4 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 6 | So what I 'm really asking for is full democracy and not the rather closed democracy that we 've been used to in this country er for too long . |
| 7 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 8 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |