Example sentences of "[be] used to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The racial card has been used to effect in previous New York elections , but in Mr Giuliani 's case he is being criticised as an opportunist for his attacks on the city 's first black Democratic nominee . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been used to fares running off without paying in the past , ’ said one . |
| 4 | Though the engine was 17 years old and had been used to pulling 40-tonne loads at 60mph , Mr Tomlinson did n't need to touch it . |
| 5 | It quite frequently happens that a horse that has been used to drinking out of a dam or stream , will always refuse water from a trough or bucket , irrespective of how thirsty it may be . |
| 6 | Whatever the explanation , other organisms , like trilobites or brachiopods , were more numerous in such sites , and have been used to date the rock sequences in the absence of graptolites . |
| 7 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 8 | Cause he had been used to me lookin' after him doon at my mother 's hoose … |
| 9 | Decorative vaulting had been used to effect in England , but in Parler 's imaginative hands , first the crazy vault and then the net vault , reached their full potential . |
| 10 | If they have been used to rushing home from work or watching the clock during any stolen time with friends , they may find it hard to adapt to the fact that there is no longer any need to hurry back . |
| 11 | The Romans had been used to the idea of employing rams to push down walls , and catapults to throw stones at or over them . |
| 12 | That is not to say that I have n't met some canny little folk , but generally I do n't speak their language because I have never been used to them . |
| 13 | They will need space and comfort , perhaps a garden if they have always been used to one and enjoy gardening , and , above all , they will need a property that gives them some self esteem and security . |
| 14 | If he 's been used to lads ' nights out each week , and football practice on Sundays , you 're going to have to reach a compromise . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if she is someone who has been used to dominating those around her , you should quietly refuse to be included in her ‘ managing ’ tactics . |
| 16 | Future movie stars will resemble him more than those you have been used to . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ As I see it , around eight teams have a chance of winning the Championship and that makes a welcome change from the two or three-horse races we have been used to , ’ he said . |
| 18 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 19 | Mr Hogan has n't been used to driving in the city traffic of recent years , and I had planned to go to Dublin to collect the samples of material . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been used to playing dolls all these years . |
| 21 | The Merseysider told me : ‘ I 've been used to fighting away from home all my life — it does n't bother me . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd been used to hopping around and flapping about wherever she pleased , so it came as a bit of a shock to find her freedom of movement restricted by the jesses . |
| 23 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 24 | A major obstacle to the earlier realisation of Ludwig 's project was that the Soviets had not been used to calling galleries after private citizens , as in the West . |
| 25 | A few smashed windows , drink , a fight or two , umpteen girls almost ‘ conquered ’ , long tall stories almost believed — but compared with what he had been used to it was the lure of the Orient , freedom , the cry of the Sirens . |
| 26 | Where the old regime 's power survived intact — eg , in the parliament — that power has been used to the country 's detriment . |
| 27 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 28 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 29 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 30 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |