Example sentences of "'ve [been] used " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wash chopping boards , knives , other equipment and your hands after they 've been used in the preparation of raw food . |
| 2 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 3 | They 've been used like sectional housing . |
| 4 | I 've been used , abused , and spat out . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 7 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They 've been used in Australia since 1952 , working for an airline founded by the father of the new owner . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |