Example sentences of "used [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 2 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 3 | He was used to sailing with the best and got exasperated with the Soviet crew . |
| 4 | The man or woman who is used to referring to the female sexual organ as a cunt will not be comfortable or confident in talking about the vulva or the vagina . |
| 5 | Because that 's the way you develop players , give them a chance of first-grade football and get them used to operating in the big time . |
| 6 | While girls are used to operating within a masculine frame of reference , boys object vociferously if presented with what they deem as ‘ girls ’ stuff' . |
| 7 | The commentators told people used to queuing for a bare minimum that the General-Secretary and the First Deputy Prime Minister had a choice of six different menus . |
| 8 | But by this time the Captain had grown used to living in a blue haze . |
| 9 | The fact that she was used to living in an expensive , glamorous apartment in London , and held down an equally glamorous if exhausting job , had little or no relevance at the moment . |
| 10 | Her perfect Cupid's-bow mouth , more used to curving in a heart-stopping smile , pursed , and concern clouded her large blue eyes . |
| 11 | Since you can pick up penalties for stepping out , even inadvertently , it makes sense to get used to sparring in a competition-sized square . |
| 12 | Even though I am used to playing at a higher level I still feel under pressure when I entered county cricket , so I needed the guys to rally round . ’ |
| 13 | Some signing — he 's been with first division , Avignon in the French league and is used to playing with the best . |
| 14 | The class gets used to performing at a particular speed and also the movement becomes greatly disturbed if not at the right tempo . |
| 15 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 16 | Claudia was getting used to feeling like a red rose in full bloom but it did n't make her like the feeling , or the man whose remarks caused her discomfort . |
| 17 | He was used to sleeping on the lightest level . |
| 18 | It appeared that the majority shared in the assessment , voiced by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , that a " strong presidency is essential to prevent a vacuum in authority " , given that " the power of the Communist Party is waning , while the government executive is not used to working with the new system " . |