Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] to [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the author of two volumes of poetry in addition to The Golden Gate ) , he is used to skimming off excess verbiage . |
| 2 | I mean he 's used to going out , but he , you still get used to not going out as well do n't you ? |
| 3 | Bradshaw 's technique , his whole life , was built on the twin pillars of strength and stamina ; he was used to taking on an unbeatable opposition and winning . |
| 4 | He was near to breaking down . |
| 5 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 6 | He would have graduated from sweeping the floor , running errands and being a " reading boy " in his first two years , to distributing type and learning the case , then to typesetting and if he was lucky to making up and imposition , though rarely to the refinements of display work . |